Op/Ed

President Obama denies regulations have grown during his tenure, even as he and his administration have pushed for a massive regulatory expansion in the health care, financial and energy industries.

Some Republicans apparently want to retain some ObamaCare provisions because they're popular, which would force them to be as heavy handed as the Democrats have been.

Counterfeits are here and will only grow unless Congress and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) devise a better way to monitor prescription drugs from inception to ingestion. Fortunately, the latest version of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act, referred to as PDUFA V, has passed Congress and includes a “placeholder,” which allows Congress to figure out the best way to track prescription drugs as they move through the supply chain to the patient.

Criminals scam Medicare and Medicaid — and taxpayers — out of billions of dollars a year; the federal government is addressing the problem, but too slow and too late.

Tax competition between governments is a good thing, and those who flee high-tax countries, like Eduardo Sevarin, should be praised for keeping the pressure up on politicians to keep taxes low.

The economy and lack of job growth hits Obama’s core constituencies even harder than the general population.

Obama economic policies are almost identical to those of the French socialist François Hollande. Those policies haven’t worked in Greece or in any other place where they’ve been tried — like the U.S.

Two key factors have played a role in removing some of the cost insulation in recent years: the economic downturn and new types of health insurance coverage. And the president would like nothing better to bring an end to both.

The 2010 election saw a voter backlash to President Obama and his policies, fundamentally realigning many states.