Rules, Rules, Rules
The Mercatus Center evaluates all major rules that cost over $100 million a year on a composite score of a dozen regulatory best practices. The Health and Human Services Department’s highest-scoring ObamaCare rules came in at 25 out of 60 points, the lowest at 13. These are not merely bad grades. They are relative Fs on the regulatory curve—about 35% to 40% lower than the averages for the other rules that the executive branch put out in 2008 and 2009. The ObamaCare rules score lower than other HHS rules in 2009.
Full article on why the quality of federal regulation is falling.
One more reason to despise big government.
It sort of makes you wonder why the government needs all these regulations? Some of these costly regulations are undoubtedly to mitigate the bad effect of other regulations.
ObamaCare regulations get a F? I’m supposed to be surprised by that?
I’m with Bruce.
Not only are the regulations low-quality, but they are brutally expensive.
I don’t know enough about Mercatus’ methodology to comment on their findings, but would love to see such research done by an organization with no stake in the outcomes. But alas, that seems unlikely.