NCPA: Daily Policy Digest 10-20-2009

National Center for Policy Analysis Daily Policy Digest Tuesday, October 20, 2009 Yes, I want to support Daily Policy Digest and contribute today! Health Issues SWISS HEALTH CARE: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY One of the good things about the Swiss health care system is that it is predominantly private; individuals are required to buy insurance and almost all of them do, says John C. Goodman, President, CEO and the Kellye Wright Fellow with the NCPA... NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS Global Warming TIME FOR INACTION ON GLOBAL WARMING Congress should consider the costs before passing "cap and trade," says Pete du Pont, Chairman of the Board for the National Center for Policy Analysis and former governor of Delaware... ONLINE JOURNAL Health Issues HEALTH COSTS AND HISTORY Every member of Congress who votes for the new health care entitlement is guaranteeing larger deficits and higher taxes far into the future, say observers... WALL STREET JOURNAL Health Issues WHY HEALTH CARE IS SO EXPENSIVE IN NEW YORK New York's private individual insurance market is among the nation's most expensive and highly regulated, say Stephen T. Parente, a professor of finance at the University of Minnesota, and Tarren Bragdon, an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute and chief executive officer of the Maine Heritage Policy Center... WALL STREET JOURNAL Economic Issues WHO'S GOING TO GET THE JOBS MACHINE GOING? To get Americans working again, we should scour government for policies that discourage job creation, say economists Larry Mishel and Kenneth Rogoff... WASHINGTON POST Economic Issues WHY THINGS WILL FEEL WORSE AS THEY GET BETTER: THE DOWNSIDE OF GROWING CONSUMPTION EQUALITY The better off we are, the more we spend and focus attention on consuming items which are less amenable to economic and technological fixes, says economist John V. C. Nye... CATO UNBOUND About the DPD NCPA's Daily Policy Digest brings you the most wide-ranging public policy findings five times a week at no charge. DPD knows your time is valuable, so we find and summarize the most topical public policy issues from today's newspapers, magazines, websites, government reports, scholarly journals and think tanks. Visit the DPD Archives Visit the NCPA website The John Goodman Health Blog A new Consumer-Directed Health Care Blog. Forward this to a Friend Subscribe to the Daily Policy Digest. Unsubscribe: If you received this email in error, you can unsubscribe here. Please do not reply to this email address as it is not monitored. For a list of NCPA departments and corresponding email addresses, please visit www.ncpa.org/contact. We depend on the financial support of individuals. We need your help to continue our work. Join the NCPA today! Dallas Headquarters 12770 Coit Rd., Suite 800 Dallas, TX 75251-1339 Phone: (972) 386-6272 Fax: (972) 386-0924 Copyright 2003-2009 National Center for Policy Analysis - All rights reserved