Daily Policy Digest
| 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... |
| The Federal Housing Administration's Poor Loan Making The Federal Housing Administration's (FHA) share of loans in serious delinquency has risen by 6 percent since 2011 and 12 percent of all FHA-insured mortgages in serious delinquency in 2012 were originated after 2010... |
| Teacher Training Moves Online More than 30 percent of postsecondary students report taking at least one online class and more than 73 percent of schools offered distance-education courses in 2010... |
| Trade Protectionism Is Bad Policy Technical barriers affect 30 percent of international trade and more than 60 percent of international trade in agriculture products... |
| Contrary to Pessimistic Views, Global Oil Supplies Increasing In 2012, domestic natural gas production rose to 69 billion cubic feet per day, a record 33 percent increase over the levels achieved in 2005... |
| Health Care Costs: A State-by-State Comparison Health care spending in the United States averaged $6,815 per person in 2009, but that figure varies significantly across the country... |
