NCPA: Daily Policy Digest 10-22-2009

National Center for Policy Analysis Daily Policy Digest Thursday, October 22, 2009 Yes, I want to support Daily Policy Digest and contribute today! Privatization Issues ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO SUBSIDIZE The best strategy to strengthen the press would be to maximize protection of the right to private property -- and the right to competition, says Seth Lipsky, a member of the adjunct faculty at the Columbia Journalism School... INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY/WALL STREET JOURNAL Health Issues TO CUT YOUR HEALTH INSURANCE COSTS, MOVE We have 50 different health care systems that result in sharply different rates across the country, says Steven Malanga, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute... REALCLEARMARKETS Regulatory Issues BEWARE WELL-INTENTIONED REGULATIONS The greatest threat to modernization of consumer credit has been the heavy hand of government regulation, says Todd Zywicki, a professor at George Mason University School Of Law... THE FREEMAN Health Issues WHAT SINGAPORE CAN TEACH THE WHITE HOUSE Singapore's health care system is first class, cheap and market driven; in this island-nation, the key to success is competition and choice, says William McGurn, a Vice President at the News Corporation who writes speeches for CEO Rupert Murdoch... WALL STREET JOURNAL Education Issues END THE SPECIAL-ED RACKET Vouchers can reduce false diagnosis of learning disabilities while helping both the truly disabled and the misdiagnosed, say researchers Marcus A. Winters and Jay P. Greene... MANHATTAN INSTITUTE/NATIONAL REVIEW 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