Daily Policy Digest
| Navigating the ObamaCare Maze California alone is spending more than $900 million setting up its health insurance exchange, yet the health reform law allocated only $1 billion for the country as a whole from the federal government, says John C. Goodman, president and CEO of the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| The Market for Medical Care Should Work Like Cosmetic Surgery Thanks to market competition, the inflation-adjusted price of cosmetic surgery fell over the past two decades -- despite a huge increase in demand and considerable innovation, says Devon M. Herrick, a senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| Subsidizing Failure There is at least one place with huge potential for ending wasteful higher education spending: to stop subsidizing students who do not graduate and put their education to good use... |
| Optimism in an Era of Growing Inequality and Economic Difficulty Despite a prolonged recession, levels of optimism about better times one year ahead are comparable to what they have been over the past two decades... |
| The Federal Reserve's Unsound Policies From 1914 until 2007 the Fed's balance sheet grew to $900 billion; since 2007 the balance sheet has exploded to $3.2 trillion and is growing $80 billion per month... |
| Leaving Canada for Medical Care, 2012 In 2012, a significant number of Canadians -- an estimated 42,173 -- received treatment outside of the country... |
| Tax and Expenditure Limits Are Ineffective In an attempt to rein in their finances, 30 states have enacted limitations on taxes, budgets or outlays since 1978, however these caps are not effective... |
| Big Data to Drive More Oil Productivity Increases In the past five years, technology has improved the productivity of America's shale fields by 200 percent to 300 percent... |
| More Transparency Is Needed in Education The median student borrower now owes nearly $14,000, while the returns on college degrees have actually decreased over the last decade... |
| How to Tell if College Presidents Are Overpaid The median salary of public university presidents rose 4.7 percent in 2011-2012 to more than $440,000 a year, vastly outpacing the rate of inflation, as well as the earnings of the typical worker in the U.S. economy... |
