Daily Policy Digest
| Projecting U.S. Primary Care Physician Workforce Needs: 2010-2025 After health insurance expansion, the United States will require nearly 52,000 additional primary care physicians by 2025... |
| Employers Are Giving Employees the Option of Choosing their Own Health Insurance Plan Defined contribution health insurance plans will create competition that forces insurers to lower prices in an effort to attract more people... |
| Entrepreneurship Is a Key to Poverty Reduction Every 1 percentage point increase in entrepreneurship corresponds to a 2 percent decrease in the poverty rate... |
| The Truth about Federal Salary Numbers A Congressional Budget Office study published in January found that the federal retirement package was 2.7 times more generous than what is paid by large private-sector firms... |
| U.S. Workers Endure "Lost Decade" of Declining Wages The median working-age man earns 4 percent less than he did in 1970 when adjusted for inflation... |
| Reducing Debt and Other Measures for Improving U.S. Competitiveness As the debt continues to increase, the government is forced to either increase taxes or make difficult spending cuts, or both... |
| Repeat Testing Common among Medicare Patients Up to half or more of adults on Medicare who had a heart, lung, stomach or bladder test had the same procedure repeated within three years -- tests that typically aren't supposed to be routinely repeated... |
| Without a Cliff Deal, States Will Bleed Red Ink The economic slowdown resulting from failure to secure a deal regarding the fiscal cliff would significantly affect state economic activity as well as undercut many state budgets... |
| The Territorial Taxation Experience in the Netherlands The Netherlands has collected more tax revenue than the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development average until very recently, despite lowering its corporate tax rate from 35 percent in 2001 to 25 percent... |
| How to Fix the Federal Housing Administration Despite constantly negative fiscal reports, the Federal Housing Administration assures Congress that future years will be better... |
