Daily Policy Digest
Government Issues
| Affordable Care Act Adapts the Worst of Swisscare, Rejects the Best By assigning individuals responsibility for securing their own health insurance, the Swiss system demands that its citizens be cost-conscious... |
| Midnight Regulation: Decisions in the Dark Rushed midnight regulations are an average of 4.3 points worse on the Mercatus Center's Regulatory Report Card than non-midnight regulations... |
| To Avoid Massive Tax Hikes, Privatize State Lotteries Private lottery companies have an incentive to maximize efficiency and profit to meet demand, whereas publicly run lotteries don't focus on a bottom line... |
| U.S. Food and Drug Administration Rules Won't Do Much Good Three thousand people die each year of food-borne illnesses, but it is unlikely that new rules from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will do anything to change that... |
| Saving the American Dream Medicare and Social Security face $40 trillion in unfunded obligations - about $200,000 per person... |
| The Regulatory Cliff Is Nearly as Steep as the Fiscal One The Environmental Protection Agency's 2010 Ozone Rule would create a limit on ozone output so strict that 85 percent of U.S. counties would be in violation... |
| Regulation, Market Structure and Role of the Credit Rating Agencies The federal government's role in creating de facto supreme credit rating agencies undermined the agencies' incentives to behave and operate properly... |
| Would the U.S. Postal Service Be Financially Stronger If It Sold Non-Postal Products? Diversified products, such as non-postal services, contributed 63 percent of foreign posts' total revenue in 2008, up from 49 percent in 2003... |
| Myths and Facts on Transportation Public-Private Partnerships Public-private partnerships do not involve the sale of any facilities by governments to private sector interests... |
| Mercatus Center Policy Guide The Mercatus Center at George Mason University has published a new policy guide designed to provide easily accessible economic information... |
