Daily Policy Digest
| Hospitals Profit When Surgeries Go Awry Hospitals earned 330 percent higher profit margins on surgeries with one or more complications when they were paid for by private insurers... |
| Inflation Poised to Accelerate According to the American Institute for Economic Research's Everyday Price Index, the prices of frequently purchased goods and services jumped 2.3 percent in February... |
| ObamaCare Rule Creates Health Care Disparities among States The policy for determining federal subsidies for the essential health benefits package penalizes states that previously tried to keep health costs more affordable while rewarding states that previously had more generous plans... |
| State Solutions Can Improve Medicaid While many states have opted not to expand Medicaid, states also have the choice of implementing innovative, market-driven solutions to improving Medicaid... |
| The Perils of Automatic Budgeting Congress needs to adopt long-term, sensible and durable budget solutions that will lead to low inflation and a departure from complacent politics... |
| California High Speed Rail Falls Short of Expectations A new study from the Reason Foundation estimates that California's high speed rail system would result in losses of $124 million to $373 million a year... |
| Who the IRS Audits and Why Small business owners in the suburbs of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, Atlanta and the District of Columbia are most likely to evade taxes... |
| Texas Vet Loses License over Internet Consultations The Texas veterinary board suspended a retired veterinarian's license after discovering that his practice was strictly Internet-based... |
| Estimates of Federal Student Loan Profits Inaccurate Not raising the interest rate on subsidized student loans last year cost taxpayers about $6 billion but only amounted to an average savings of $9 a month for those paying off the loan... |
| The High Cost of Low-Value Wind Power Subsidies for renewable energy distort markets and are economically inefficient, driving out legitimate competitors and leading to higher prices in the long run... |
