Daily Policy Digest
| Not All Budget Cuts Have to Hurt Raising Medicare's eligibility age by two months per year from age 65 in 2017 to age 67 in 2035 would reduce federal spending by $124.8 billion over 10 years... |
| Slow Economic Growth in 2013 Even if nominal gross domestic product (GDP) growth is larger than the Congressional Budget Office's official predictions for 2015 to 2023, GDP growth per year will only average 1.47 percentage points... |
| Dental Therapists Could Reduce Dental Care Shortage As the professional association for dentists, the American Dental Association is staunchly opposed to dental therapists, mainly for economic reasons... |
| Central Banks Losing Autonomy The U.S. Federal Reserve is buying more than 90 percent of newly issued U.S. Treasury securities... |
| Medicaid Expansion Is the Wrong Move By 2021, 46 percent of all Americans will be dependent on the government for their health care... |
| Many Patients Object to Focusing on Costs Cost becomes trivial to many patients who want to eliminate uncertainty and take preventive screening measures against rare diseases and conditions... |
| Green Cars: Not So Clean After All It costs 30,000 pounds of carbon-dioxide emission to produce an electric car, equal to about 80,000 miles of travel, yet it's only 14,000 pounds to build a conventional car... |
| The Myth of America's Cowboy Capitalism The Federal Register, which contains all proposed rules and regulations, has grown more than 2,848 percent since its first volume... |
| Harlem Children's Zone Brings Progress and Hope Ninety-five percent of seniors in Harlem Children's Zone after-school programs were accepted into college... |
| A New Road Map for U.S.-Chinese Relations Washington has renewed its focus on the strategic and economic significance of Asia, and in particular China, calling for a policy of "pivot" or "rebalance"... |
