Daily Policy Digest
| Affordable Care Act's Medical Device Tax Is Counterproductive The medical device tax increases the per-unit price of a good by 2.3 percent at the point of the manufacturer and before the medical device reaches the wholesaler or hospital... |
| Why Savers Prefer Low Yield Instruments Risk-based regulations are the reason why investors are shying away from productive higher yield investments... |
| Young Adults on Parents' Health Plans Cost More Young adults newly enrolled in their parents' health insurance incurred $2,866 in health costs on average; young adults with their own coverage averaged $2,472 for health services... |
| America's Bridges Are Not Falling Only 26.3 percent of urban interstates were rated as congested in 2010, compared with 52.6 percent in 1989... |
| Environmental Protection Agency Regulations Threaten Coal Industry Tougher air-quality standards would make 66 percent of the nation's coal-fired power plants more expensive to operate than natural-gas fired plants... |
| A War on Coal? While many conservatives consider the Environmental Protection Agency to be the problem, many of the overzealous environmental rulemaking is mandated by provisions of the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act... |
| Return Emergency Room Visits after Discharge Not Counted in Readmission Rates Twenty-one percent of discharged patients returned at least once to the emergency department within a month after leaving the hospital... |
| Electric Cars: Not There Yet The U.S. Congressional Budget Office has estimated that an electric car costs $12,000 more than an internal combustion vehicle over its lifetime... |
| Cost of Health Insurance Exchanges Shoots Up The new White House budget expects that from January 1, 2014, when the insurance exchanges officially open, to 2021, the administration will spent about $606 billion subsidizing insurance on the exchanges... |
| The Obama Budget's Economic Message To prepare for slower growth, the Obama administration must show spending restraint instead of proposing a budget that leaves gross debt at more than 100 percent of gross domestic product in 2020... |
