State lawmakers interested in improving access to health care in North Carolina should consider relaxing restrictions on nurse practitioners That's a recommendation from Katherine Restrepo John Locke Foundation director of health care policy Restrepo explains how so-called scope-of-practice reform could play an important role in boosting rural health care Private property rights play a critical role in a free society The U S Constitution focuses attention on protecting those rights Ilya Somin professor of law at George Mason University discussed the Constitution's property rights protections during a recent speech at N C State University Somin shares themes from that presentation [... more]