Healthcare prices continue to increase at a rapid pace and at great cost to consumers.  With price competition virtually unheard of in the healthcare industry, there is little incentive for healthcare providers to operate in a more cost-effective manner.  However, recent efforts to rate medical professionals and hospitals could provide some level of competition that [...]

Cable TV rates continue to rise in Tennessee.  However, overwhelming evidence shows that cable TV competition would give consumers lower prices, better service and increased choice.  While many states have enacted cable TV reform legislation in order to achieve these consumer benefits, Tennessee policymakers have yet step up for consumers.    
 
 
Monopoly 101: Consumers Lose 
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Vicky Thomas
Delco Times
In an effort to restore stability to a faltering U.S. economy, the Federal Reserve slashed a key interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point Tuesday while around Delaware County, some top economic minds expressed their views on the move.
The reduction in the federal funds rate from 4.25 down to 3.5 percent, the [...]

A recent American Consumer Institute study found the U.S. wireless market to be more competitive than any other wireless market in the world.  The study found high levels of wireless competition, not regulation, were strongly correlated with lower consumer prices, increased consumer demand and improved consumer welfare.  However, that study ignored another benefit of competitive [...]