Freeing Entrepreneurs to Provide Essential Services to the Poor

Task Force Report

“The goal is to free entrepreneurs to provide essential services to the poor — such as transportation, child care, security, housing and health care. A task force … found that cost increasing regulations have priced low-income families out of the market for many services that are essential to their quality of life and prospects for economic progress…. The alternative approach they propose is straight-forward: Lift regulatory barriers for individual entrepreneurs, businesses and charities.”

On The Firing Line

Firing Line debate on privatizing welfare.

John C. Goodman is President of the Goodman Institute and Senior Fellow at The Independent Institute. His books include the soon-to-be-published updated edition of Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis, the widely acclaimed A Better Choice: Healthcare Solutions for America, and New Way to Care: Social Protections that Put Families First. The Wall Street Journal and National Journal, among other media, have called him the “Father of Health Savings Accounts.”