Daily Policy Digest
| The Market for Medical Care Should Work Like Cosmetic Surgery Americans spend nearly $300 billion on physician care annually; yet, patients rarely discuss the price of a given service with their physicians in advance of receiving treatment, says Devon Herrick, a senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| Nationalization of the Housing Sector Should Be Stopped The U.S. housing finance sector has become a largely nationalized and socialized "government housing complex"... |
| United States Can Cut Defense Spending without Threatening National Security As by far the largest portion of discretionary spending, Pentagon expenditures must not escape scrutiny when examining methods for reducing our staggering debt... |
| ObamaCare Is Raising Insurance Costs The premiums for the policies that will be offered on California and Oregon's health insurance exchanges are much higher than analogous plans being sold today... |
| Homeownership Is Still Part of the American Dream The dream of homeownership in America is not at all dead, but is simply evolving... |
| Denmark's Fat Tax Harms Economy Denmark's fat tax had a very limited impact on the consumption of "unhealthy" foods -- only 7 percent of the population reduced the amount of butter, cream and cheese they bought... |
| Solar Radiation Management: The Future of Environmentalism The economic benefits of a successful solar radiation management program would flow from a reduction in climate damages owing to warming and a reduction in economic damage caused by greenhouse gas controls... |
| ObamaCare Increases Insurance Premiums Prices in California ObamaCare will increase individual-market premiums in California by as much as 146 percent... |
| Education Reform: Milwaukee's School System In a 2010 study, Milwaukee came in 19th out of 25 cities ranked when examining the nation's best and worst cities for school reform... |
| ObamaCare Increases Taxes Of the estimated 13.9 million households nationwide with a flexible spending account, 35 percent will be affected by the new contribution cap under ObamaCare, with an average tax increase of $101 in 2013... |
