Daily Policy Digest
| Exchanging Medicaid for Private Insurance Converting Medicaid into block grants would allow states the flexibility in designing programs that fit their individual needs, says Devon M. Herrick, a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| Repairing ObamaCare The Affordable Care Act is a deeply flawed law, but there are five essential changes that could fix it, says John C. Goodman, president and CEO of the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| The Economic Costs of Tax Policy Uncertainty: Implications for Fundamental Tax Reform The budget process encourages lawmakers to game the system by creating phase-ins, phase-outs and expiration dates... |
| Waiting Your Turn Specialist physicians surveyed across 12 specialties and 10 Canadian provinces reported an average waiting time of 17.7 weeks between general practitioner referral and an elective treatment... |
| The Rise of Faux Diversity In 80 percent of elite schools, racial preferences can give minority students an advantage equivalent to a 100 point increase in SAT scores... |
| The Veterans Disability System: Problems and Solutions It takes about 197 days to complete the average Veterans Affairs Disability claim; by contrast, it takes an average of 111 days for the Social Security Administration to process Disability Insurance claims, say Pamela Villarreal, a senior fellow, and Kyle Buckley, a research associate, at the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down Concealed Carry Ban in Illinois The state of Illinois has had its ban on carrying concealed weapons overturned by the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals; the decision cites research by Sterling Burnett, a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| Food Truck Freedom Food trucks should be inspected when they are first permitted and periodically when they are in the field, holding them to the same standards as restaurants... |
| Gushing about America's Energy Future The International Energy Agency projects that U.S. oil production will exceed Saudi Arabia's production by 2020... |
| Making Bad Drugs? Three Strikes and You're Out About 82 million doses of counterfeit drugs were seized in Africa, but a much bigger public health problem is substandard drugs that are the result of shoddy manufacturing and handling... |
