Daily Policy Digest
| How Entrepreneurs Could Solve Medicare's Problems Under Medicare reforms proposed by the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA), savings would amount to an estimated $2.4 trillion annually by mid-century compared to the status quo, say John C. Goodman, president and CEO of the NCPA, Greg Scandlen, founder of Consumers for Health Care Choice, and Devon Herrick, a senior fellow with the NCPA... |
| California's Push for Renewable Energy Will Raise Prices California's 33 percent renewable portfolio standard will cost California approximately $5 billion in 2020... |
| Expanding Medicaid Eligibility May Not Be Good for States The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the federal government will spend $642 billion to expand coverage under Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program between 2012 and 2022... |
| Exaggerated Global Warming Claims May Lead to Poor Policy The United States is actually at the lowest point of hurricane activity, measured by total energy, since the 1970s... |
| Common Core K-12 Curriculum Requirements Full implementation of the Common Core curriculum is estimated to cost between $3 billion and $16 billion, including costs for new textbooks, teacher training and technology upgrades... |
| Social Security Could Be Made Solvent through Payroll Tax Increase, but Not Without Consequences The payroll tax rate would have to immediately jump from 12.3 percent to 16.3 percent in order to make Social Security sustainable... |
| Public-Private Partnerships: A Solution for Infrastructure In 2011, private investment accounted for $1.818 trillion in infrastructure spending compared with the government's expenditure of $480 billion... |
| Penalty Could Keep Smokers out of Health Overhaul For a 55-year-old smoker, the tobacco penalty in the Affordable Care Act could reach nearly $4,250 a year... |
| United States Could Become the World's Largest Energy Producer By 2030 approximately 99 percent of America's energy needs will be met at home, compared with only 70 percent in 2005... |
| Delays in Medicaid Pay Vex Hospitals Medicaid payments to hospitals in Maine have been delayed three years and total $484 million... |
