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Badger Institute Policy Analyst Julie Grace testified in favor of 2021 SB 181 before the Wisconsin Senate Committee on Insurance, Licensing, and Forestry on March 17, 2021.

2021 SB 181 would provide for the licensure of dental therapists, who are health care practitioners who may engage in the limited practice of dentistry.

Dentists see that adding the mid-level providers eases the care shortage, expands access and creates efficiencies

Streamlined licensing reciprocity should be made permanent and extended to other professions

They’re working and should be made permanent

Wisconsin’s small cities offer an escape for suddenly mobile metropolitan workers long cramped by a viral lockdown

In a truly horrible year, perhaps there have been planted the seeds of miracles

With fewer students and huge deficits likely, the state should consider closing some campuses and following online model for certain courses

Governments are instrumental in wars, natural disasters and, we’ve found, pandemics.

Balancing risks with freedom

Economic impact varies widely across Wisconsin counties

Plan would take into account regional risk factors and let consumers decide

Wisconsinites rush to help neighbors in need during crisis, prove fundamental goodness of civil society

Bill includes coalition recommendations for addressing the crisis

The unprecedented COVID crisis has devastated Wisconsin families, businesses and schools. The coming weeks will be deeply challenging as the state tries to pick up the pieces in the aftermath. Now, more than ever, public policy matters.

Wisconsin’s minimum markup law is particularly egregious when Wisconsinites are suffering

In wake of COVID-19, telehealth regulations have been loosened; those changes should remain even after crisis is over

These principles should guide Wisconsin lawmakers as they confront the current public health and economic crisis

After Gov. Tony Evers issued an executive order to cut red tape on medical licensing, the Badger Institute, Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, The MacIver Institute and Americans for Prosperity urge the governor and state Legislature to continue to cut red tape to fight the coronavirus pandemic in Wisconsin.

Home detention one option for helping prevent virus’ spread while maintaining public safety

For more than a year, bureaucratic delays and hurdles imposed by the Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services (DSPS) deprived Meggan Thompson of a job and an income, and deprived Wisconsinites with debilitating mental health issues of the help she could have long ago provided.