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Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Permission Slips for Innovation

Part Two: How Certificate of Need laws limit access to health care, and why those rules can be so difficult to dislodge.

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Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Who Decides What Health Care Is 'Needed'?

Too often, it's government bureaucrats acting under the influence of special interests and against the wishes of doctors and patients, with sometimes tragic results.

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The Feds Won't Let You Use These Cheap Chinese Cellphones

American cellphone service providers don’t carry Huawei. Blame Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

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What Libertarians Would Ask Trump and Harris at the Debate

Plus: A listener asks if rebranding tariffs as taxes would make any difference in reducing their appeal to politicians and voters.

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Eric Boehm: Why Is American Health Care So Dysfunctional?

The host of Why We Can't Have Nice Things returns to discuss the podcast's second season, which focuses on how government makes Americans poorer and sicker.

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Wait, Democrats Now Say They Love Freedom?

Plus: Does the government own too much land in Utah? And the latest response to Friends star Matthew Perry’s drug overdose death.

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J.D. Vance's Revisionist History

Plus: Brat summer revisited, Telegram CEO arrested, and more...

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Tim Walz Is Another Big-Government Liberal

Plus: A listener asks the editors about tariffs and subsidies in the manufacture of electric vehicles.

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Weighing Kamala Harris' Veep Options

A very special Reason Roundtable crossover episode with two guests from The Dispatch!

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Biden's Out. Harris Is In. Everyone Else Is Screwed.

Plus: A listener asks the editors if employers should be held responsible for the speech and actions of employees outside of the workplace.

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Is Violent Rhetoric To Blame for the Trump Assassination Attempt?

Plus: Is Biden fit to be president today, let alone stand for reelection?

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Biden, Cognitive Decline, and the End of American Empire

Plus: The editors reflect on the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

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Should Donald Trump Have Been Convicted?

Plus: A single-issue voter asks the editors for some voting advice in the 2024 presidential election.

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Libertarian National Convention: Are You Not Entertained?

Plus: A listener asks the editors for voting advice and commiseration in a predominantly democratic state.

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Campaigns Can't Get Worse, Can They?

Plus: A listener asks the editors about President Joe Biden holding up arms shipments to Israel.

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Americans Care About Inflation, but Politicians Don't

Plus: A listener asks the editors about cancelling student loan debt.

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Worst 4/20 Ever

Plus: A listener asks the editors to steel man the case for the Jones Act, an antiquated law that regulates maritime commerce in U.S. waters.

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Biden's Antitrust Case Against Apple Is Truly Stupid

Plus: A listener asks about the absurdity of Social Security entitlements.

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The CCP Sucks. So Does Banning TikTok.

Plus: A listener asks about Republicans and Democrats monopolizing political power in the United States.

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The State of the Union Is Shouty

Plus: A listener asks the editors a question about progressive taxation in the United States.

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Rank Choices

Plus: A listener asks the editors for short quotes from fictional works that are representative of libertarian ideas.

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Biden Pours Out Another $6.5 Billion for the CHIPS Act's Costly Protectionism

It's part of the government's expensive public-private partnership meant to address concerns over a reliance on foreign countries, like China, for semiconductors.

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Goodbye, Navalny

Plus: A listener asks if the editors have criteria for what constitutes a good law.

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Biden's Cognitive Shrinkflation

Plus: A listener asks if the state of Oregon’s policy on drug decriminalization should be viewed as a success.

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Immigration Could Reduce the Deficit by at Least $1 Trillion Over the Next Ten Years

But the Congressional Budget Office projection assumes we will not cut immigration levels, as is likely to happen if Trump returns to power.

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