![Media Name: reg38n2-cover.jpg](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/serial_cover_phone/public/serials/covers/reg38n2-cover.jpg?itok=IXpuUj7Z) 

# Summer 2015 

Vol. 38 No. 2 

[Subscribe](https://store.cato.org/collections/all-products/products/regulation-magazine) 

##### From the Cover 

### [What Hath the FCC Wrought? ](/regulation/summer-2015/what-hath-fcc-wrought)

By Gerald R. Faulhaber 

As Title II “net neutrality” moves toward implementation, some proponents are having second thoughts. What is to be done?

### [Scaling and Splitting: New Approaches to Health Insurance ](/regulation/summer-2015/scaling-splitting-new-approaches-health-insurance)

By Christopher Robertson and Keith A. Joiner 

How can we cut health care costs while expanding access to care?

### [Does Freedom Need ‘Bootleggers’? ](/regulation/summer-2015/does-freedom-need-bootleggers)

By Dwight R. Lee 

### [Reforming Housing Assistance ](/regulation/summer-2015/reforming-housing-assistance)

By Edgar O. Olsen 

The federal government can serve more families at a lower cost than its current hodgepodge of programs.

##### Features 

#### [The Future Legacy of Public Choice ](/regulation/summer-2015/future-legacy-public-choice)

By Zachary Gochenour 

Gordon Tullock, 1922 — 2014

#### [Reforming SSDI for the 21st Century ](/regulation/summer-2015/reforming-ssdi-21st-century)

By A. Bentley Hankins and Jeffrey D. Joy 

Preserving the program will require fundamental change.

#### [Will Competition Arise for Multistate Health Plans? ](/regulation/summer-2015/will-competition-arise-multistate-health-plans)

By Neil R. Meredith and Robert E. Moffit 

Recent regulations are unlikely to make the MSP program a platform for more robust health insurance competition.

#### [Groundhog Day at the FCC ](/regulation/summer-2015/groundhog-day-fcc)

By Dennis L. Weisman 

Consumers don’t benefit from “reflexive protectionism.”

##### For the Record 

##### [The Non-Physician Remedy to the Physician Shortage ](/regulation/summer-2015/non-physician-remedy-physician-shortage)

By Thomas A. Hemphill and Gerald Knesek 

##### Briefly Noted 

##### [The Menu Labeling Morass ](/regulation/summer-2015/menu-labeling-morass)

By [Ike Brannon](https://www.cato.org/people/ike-brannon) and Sam Batkins 

##### [Drugmakers’ Unwelcome Surprise ](/regulation/summer-2015/drugmakers-unwelcome-surprise)

By Thomas A. Hemphill 

##### [The Promise and Peril of Retrospective Review ](/regulation/summer-2015/promise-peril-retrospective-review)

By Keith B. Belton 

##### [How States Can Effectively End the Federal Income Tax — and Why They Should ](/regulation/summer-2015/how-states-can-effectively-end-federal-income-tax-why-they-should)

By Ryan Murphy 

##### [Regulating Medical LDTs ](/regulation/summer-2015/regulating-medical-ldts)

By Henry I. Miller 

##### In Review 

##### [Health Care Incentives Matter ](/regulation/summer-2015/health-care-incentives-matter)

By David R. Henderson 

##### [The Rise of Prerogative Power ](/regulation/summer-2015/rise-prerogative-power)

By George C. Leef 

##### [Ethics and Energy ](/regulation/summer-2015/ethics-energy)

By David R. Henderson 

##### [Defending Sweatshops ](/regulation/summer-2015/defending-sweatshops)

By Pierre Lemieux 

##### [Working Papers ](/regulation/summer-2015/working-papers)

By [Peter Van Doren](https://www.cato.org/people/peter-van-doren) 

##### Final Word 

##### [Red Tape Confetti ](/regulation/summer-2015/red-tape-confetti)

By Marni Soupcoff 

##### Latest Issues 

[![Regulation - Fall 2026 - Cover](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/serial_cover_phone/public/2026-09/regulation-fall-2026-cover.jpg?itok=4PdTh8RK)](https://www.cato.org/regulation/fall-2026) 

[Fall 2026](/regulation/fall-2026)

[![Regulation - Summer 2026 - Cover](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/serial_cover_phone/public/2026-06/regulation-summer-2026-cover.jpg?itok=mgR9E73X)](https://www.cato.org/regulation/summer-2026) 

[Summer 2026](/regulation/summer-2026)

[![Regulation - Spring 2026 - Cover](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/serial_cover_phone/public/2026-03/regulation-spring-2026-cover.png?itok=_E4_q18u)](https://www.cato.org/regulation/spring-2026) 

[Spring 2026](/regulation/spring-2026)

[![Regulation Winter 2025-2026 Cover](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/serial_cover_phone/public/2025-12/regulation-v48n4-cover.jpg?itok=QSGuJRQT)](https://www.cato.org/regulation/winter-2025-2026) 

[Winter 2025–2026](/regulation/winter-2025-2026)