In a new policy memo, Restoring Legislative Oversight, The Buckeye Institute urged Ohio lawmakers to restore legislative oversight to Ohio’s rule-making process to ensure that elected officials are responsible for costly government regulations imposed on Ohioans. “By restoring legislative oversight over this process, Ohioans can hold their elected officials accountable for major, costly regulations while preserving executive authority over essential administrative functions and emergency responses.”

Using STELA—The Buckeye Institute’s dynamic scoring model—The Buckeye Institute revealed that a proposed 9.9 percent Washington state income tax on high earners included in Senate Bill 6346 would ravage the state’s economy with a loss of $4.9 billion in economic growth. The findings were published in Washington’s Tax Gamble, in partnership with Washington Policy Center, and provide voters and policymakers with a better understanding of how Senate Bill 6346 will affect the state’s businesses, families, economy, and revenues.

The Buckeye Institute submitted a public comment to the Ohio Department of Aging on Ohio’s draft 2027-2030 State Plan on Aging, outlining how the Buckeye State can make Ohio the best place to age in the nation. Buckeye’s recommendations were included in its recently released report, The Cost of Aging, which offered durable and cost-effective solutions to providing long-term care for Ohio’s aging population. 

In a public comment filed with the Ohio Department of Medicaid, The Buckeye Institute urged officials to adopt two proposed rule changes that will strengthen programmatic oversight, close a real gap in fraud detection, better train providers, improve billing and documentation standards to help prevent improper and fraudulent payments, preserve reasonable flexibility for care providers, and help avoid disruptions to patient care.

In a new policy report, The Cost of Aging, The Buckeye Institute offers durable and cost-effective solutions to providing long-term care for Ohio’s aging population. With 2.2 million residents older than 65, and an elderly population that is growing faster than the national average, the need to address the state’s long-term care crisis is now. “The Buckeye Institute’s report offers policymakers a series of comprehensive recommendations that are essential for meeting demand and sustaining Ohio’s fiscal health.”

As Ohio lawmakers look for solutions to fix a broken 340B drug pricing program, The Buckeye Institute released a new policy brief—The 340B Fix: Federal Bipartisan Effort Best Path to Reform—outlining how the program came to neglect its well-intended goals and urged Ohio policymakers to encourage federal reforms percolating in Washington. “The 340B program requires federal reforms to fix the broken program, and Ohio leaders should encourage that effort.”