HHS Eases Requirements for Treating Opioid Patients with Buprenorphine
The Department of Health and Human Services recently released guidelines that make it easier to prescribe buprenorphine to patients with opioid use disorder.
Commentaries & Insights
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Distributional Effects in Regulatory Impact Analysis
President Biden reinforced longstanding requirements for regulatory analysis and placed renewed emphasis on understanding distributional regulatory effects.
The effects of regulation on jobs have been a heated theme in contemporary political debate. Little attention has been paid to regulatory uncertainty, and yet its impact on employment has a basis in the economic theory.
Biden is Using Multiple Mechanisms to Reverse Trump's Regulatory Agenda
Biden has been actively using several options to reverse Trump-era rules, including withdrawals, regulatory suspensions, strategic responses to litigation, etc.
Congress Targets Six Trump Administration Regulations for Elimination Under the CRA
The Democrat-led Congress has targeted six Trump-era regulations for elimination under the Congressional Review Act.
A Project Worth Watching at OIRA
Building up the ability for agencies to conduct effective benefit-cost analysis was difficult when President Clinton authored Executive Order 12866 in 1993, so too will be building out better distributional analysis under President Biden’s “Modernizing Regulatory Review” Memorandum. It was worth the effort then, and it will be worth the effort now.
Seismic Shift In The Regulatory Tide
The first two months of the Biden-Harris administration indicate a departure from the traditional regulatory review practices embraced by both parties.
The General Services Administration updated the classic version of Regulations.gov, the primary website used for accepting public comments.
Regulatory Benefit-Cost Analysis—Advice for a New Presidential Term
SBCA organized a panel dispensing advice to the incoming Biden administration on improving and expanding the use of benefit-cost analysis.
Regulatory Sentiment and Uncertainty under the Trump Administration
The impact of regulatory policy depends on how it is designed and implemented, but public perceptions and subjective attitudes about regulation can also play important roles in how it affects the economy. Using newspaper text, I track sentiment and uncertainty about regulation until January 31, 2021 and discuss how they changed during the Trump and previous administrations in this commentary.