The op-ed is avaible at the Gainesville Sun website.

For years, Florida’s property-insurance crisis has remained unsolved, with an ever-building mountain of unfunded debt obligations building up, driving up consumer costs, creating unnecessary risk and uncertainty, hampering Florida’s economic recovery and discouraging insurance competition for your business. Epitomizing these crises, Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund leadership has testified to the governor and the Legislature that, [...]

Before the North Carolina Joint Legislative Study Committee on Automobile Insurance Statement of Steve Pociask President of the American Consumer Institute, Center for Citizen Research January 25, 2012 Raleigh, North Carolina Today I will talk about a number of problems with the current regulatory system in North Carolina, including the existence of hidden fees and [...]

In his recent Consumer Electronic Show keynote address, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski warned mobile broadband users, “We’re threatened by a looming spectrum crunch. This is the dark cloud around the silver lining.” … Few would disagree with Genachowski’s assessment. It’s becoming clear that if we don’t take steps now to address this crisis, we risk [...]

What if regulations prevented your doctor from prescribing you the correct course of treatment for your illness?  That is exactly what will be happening, as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) moves ahead to implement a seriously flawed medical device auction program.  That program, if not fixed, will reduce patient access to prescribed medical [...]

At the Consumer Electronics Show this week, when FCC regulatory chairman Julius Genachowski was asked about the FCC’s opposition to the now nixed AT&T/T-Mobile proposed merger, he replied that this was a “reminder of the benefits and power of competition.”  But his explanation of this point suggests that it is government that creates competition, not [...]

The TC Palm op-ed, written by ACI President Steve Pociask, ran on Thursday, January 12, 2012 and can be viewed here.

PDF VERSION IS AVAILABLE HERE — PCPAN_Letter_ACI to FTC   January 11, 2012 Chairman Jon Leibowitz Federal Trade Commission 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20580   Dear Chairman Leibowitz: The American Consumer Institute Center for Citizen Research is strongly opposed to the proposed merger between pharmacy benefit managers (PBM) Express Scripts, Inc. and Medco [...]

The Solution Can Sometimes Be Worse than the Problem (Published in THE HILL’s Congressional Blog on January 6, 2012 as “FTC should block proposed Express Scripts-Medco merger”  The perfect example of the law of unintended consequences can be found in the 7 million acres from Texas to Washington DC that is covered by Kudzu vines.  [...]

For a printable version of ACI’s filing, Please Click Here. Summary: In this proceeding, the Institute comments for the purpose of assisting the FIO in formulating its recommendations to Congress as they pertain to insurance institutions and regulation of these institutions.  Our comments focus solely on the intersection of issues involving the cost and benefit of [...]