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The Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University announced former U.S. Representative Mia Love as the research center’s national outreach director on Tuesday ....
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April 21, 2021 In this Research & Commentary, Christina Herrin evaluates how Montana would benefit from Certificate of Need Law Reform Montana is one of 35 states that still has Certificate of Need (CON) laws. These laws regulate health care facilities and require that any expansion of an existing medical facility or construction of new facilities is approved by a state review board. CON laws are outdated and increase health care costs, resulting in reduced competition and less innovation. The bureaucratic process to prove there is a need in the market is erroneous at best and downright cronyism at worst. All too often it results in less competition by limiting startups from entering the industry. Montana CON requires at least a six-month review process and a fee of $500 or .03% of the project’s capital expenditures, whichever is greater. ....
SALT LAKE CITY Ongoing issues regarding Big Tech firms like Amazon, Apple and Facebook and how they wield market power and handle troves of personal data is not sitting well with residents across the country and particularly so in Utah, where many have expressed their marked distrust of those firms in a new poll. And the same Utahns are only slightly less distrustful of their federal and state governments, though willing to extend a bit more faith to local government leaders. These findings are all part of a new Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll of 1,000 Utah registered voters. The survey was conducted Feb. 10-16 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points. ....