Policy Guide

This Guide to Communications Policy explains in plain language the issues and opportunities that policy makers face in considering the future of the U.S. communications industry. It supplies legislators otherwise at the mercy of regulatory jargon with the tools to make intelligent, principled decisions. The Guide reflects a nonpartisan but distinctly free-market approach that, if followed, will lead to investment, job creation, and new products and services for consumers.

Legislators need to be prudent stewards of taxpayer dollars, but they must also ensure that vulnerable populations receive appropriate care. This Desktop Reference will help state legislators identify effective actions that may save the state money without reducing access to needed medicines. Topics include Medicaid restrictive formularies, importation/reimportation, purchasing coalitions, drug price controls, tort reform, counterfeit drugs, and direct-to-consumer advertising.

Legislators need to be prudent stewards of taxpayer dollars, but they must also ensure that vulnerable populations receive appropriate care. This Desktop Reference will help state legislators identify effective actions that may save the state money without reducing access to needed medicines. Topics include Medicare drug discount cards, Medicaid restrictive formularies, importation/reimportation, purchasing coalitions, drug price controls, tort reform, and direct-to-consumer advertising

This guide explains the issues public policymakers face in considering the future of the U.S. telecommunications industry, offering in "plain English" the tools to make intelligent and principled decisions. It presents a set of guiding principles, based on the notion that less telecom regulation ultimately benefits consumers. It also explains commonly heard telecom-industry terms.

Legislators need to be prudent stewards of taxpayer dollars, but they must also ensure that vulnerable populations receive appropriate care. This Desktop Reference will help state legislators identify effective actions that may save the state money without reducing access to needed medicines.

This guide answers some of the questions about the safety concerns associated with prescription drug importation and whether consumers ought to have the right to buy imported drugs even if they are aware of the significant risks.

This Desktop Reference will help state legislators identify effective actions that may save the states money without reducing access to needed medicines.