Daily Policy Digest
| Health Care Law's Insurance Tax Will Raise Premium Costs On average, the cost of a family health insurance plan sold through a large employer could cost about $7,200 more over 10 years -- about $720 per year -- under President Obama's health care law... |
| States Should Just Say No to Medicaid Expansion The number of Texas doctors willing to accept new Medicaid patients has declined from 42 percent in 2010 to 31 percent in 2012... |
| Exporting Natural Gas a Boon to United States despite Price Hikes America's new energy bonanza is the natural gas found in shale rock, and there's a heavy push to build terminals where it can be liquefied and exported... |
| As Companies Seek Tax Deals, Governments Pay High Price In New York, the cost of providing film credits every year equals the cost of hiring 5,000 new public school teachers... |
| Raising Revenue: The Least Worst Options As of 2008, the Office of Management and Budget reported public lands worth $833 billion and loans worth $209 billion... |
| Is the U.S. Postal Service Like Greece? The U.S. Postal Service has reduced its total workforce by 30 percent from 1999 to 2011, primarily through attrition and buyouts, while maintaining acceptable service quality... |
| Renewable Fuel Standard Costs Chain Restaurants Billions Annually A new study conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers for the National Council of Chain Restaurants estimates the federal Renewable Fuel Standard could cost quick service restaurants an additional $2.5 billion in 2015... |
| Focus on For-Profits in K-12 Education Misses the Real Divide Public education represents one of the least innovative sectors in the U.S. economy despite receiving $596 billion per year in public funds... |
| The Impact of Agrochemicals The Centers for Disease Control found that widespread spraying to control mosquitoes carrying West Nile during 1999-2002 only caused two definite cases of health impacts... |
| Expensive Oil Weighs Down the Economy Driven by higher oil prices, U.S. consumers will spend about $600 billion more on petroleum fuels in 2012 than they did in 2002... |
