The leadership of the regulatory agencies responsible for the Dodd-Frank reforms will change in the new administration, and may reconsider or halt new or expanded regulations that have not yet been implemented, or delay the timing of some reforms.
In the U.K., where Chobani is currently expanding, regulations do not permit a yogurt that isn't actually made in Greece to be called "Greek yogurt"; moreover, yogurts marketed there as "Greek style" sometimes have added gelatin or milk solids, and Chobani worries about customers becoming confused.
The Republican candidates, collectively and in distinctive ways, continue to cast him as the foil against whom they ran so successfully in 2010: a big-government liberal who has expanded regulations, created uncertainty for business and failed to revive the economy, with millions more Americans out of work than when he took office.
"The last thing they need is a new tax that will increase costs, expand regulations, and drive them out of business".
Instead of expanding regulations and incenting greater litigation, effective health care reforms need to incent innovation in the practice of medicine and increase patients control over their own personal health care decisions.
In an environment of multiple complex payment reforms, expanding regulations, and difficult-to-use health information technology, it can seem like asking physicians to address our patients' social needs only adds to the already unreasonable burdens of the profession and falls outside the definition of medical care.
Yet private doctors' offices that likewise offer the abortion pill are not covered by the expanded regulations, the ACLU points out in its statement.
The report includes recommendations for the EPA to not only beef up enforcement, but also expand regulations to control electronics that -- while benign when intact -- become hazardous upon dismantling, encourage Congress to ratify the Basel Convention, and work with other government agencies to improve oversight of used electronics.
The desperate rescue efforts of the past year make expanded regulation even more urgent.
Expanded regulation in financial services is inevitable and in some instances necessary.
