An Easy Way to Prevent Unintended Consequences: Don’t Pass Laws That Cause Them
6th June 2011
Peter Suderman lays out some Inconvenient Truth.
The AP’s Q&A on the Obama administration’s 1,400 health care waivers, which exempt specific businesses and union organizations from certain provisions of the health care law, strongly implies that the waiver process is best understood as “a safety valve” designed to “prevent unintended consequences.” There is, however, an easier way to prevent such unintended consequences: Don’t pass laws that cause them in the first place.