Daily Policy Digest
| ObamaCare: Drastic Payment Cuts or Ballooning Deficit The Affordable Care Act is projected to add $6.2 trillion to the federal deficit over the next 75 years... |
| The Death of Physician-Owned Private Practices By next year, an estimated 50 percent of U.S. doctors will be working in hospitals -- a nearly 75 percent increase in the number of doctors employed by hospitals since 2000... |
| Farm Subsidies: Inexcusable Waste The Department of Agriculture spent $22 billion on subsidy programs in 2012, though only 2 percent of Americans are directly engaged in farming... |
| Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Advocates Raising Corporate Taxes Enacting global formula appointment for corporate taxes in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries would not result in larger tax revenues but instead shift tax revenues from country to country... |
| A Short History of K-12 Reform By 2010 five in every 10 pupils were enrolled in schools that they or their parents played an active role in selecting rather than passively being assigned by a district bureaucracy... |
| The Great Promise of Online Learning Higher education students taking at least one online class has risen from less than 10 percent in 2002 to more than 30 percent in 2010... |
| Building Equity in a House as a Substitute for Social Security Social Security tax payments would be more beneficial if individuals were allowed to save for retirement by building equity in a house... |
| Arizona Leads Nation in School Choice Arizona's open enrollment law allows any child to enroll in any public school in the state as long as a completed application is submitted to a school or district during an open enrollment period... |
| States Failing When It Comes to Health Care Price Transparency Laws A report card on price transparency in health care costs gives 29 states an "F" and seven states a "D" for policies that keep patients and their families in the dark on prices... |
| More Teachers Are Grouping Kids by Ability Between 1998 and 2009, the percentage of fourth grade teachers who said they created ability-based reading groups jumped from 28 percent to 71 percent... |
