NCPA: Daily Policy Digest 10-28-2009

National Center for Policy Analysis Daily Policy Digest Wednesday, October 28, 2009 Yes, I want to support Daily Policy Digest and contribute today! State and Local Issues ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK A new study says taxes are driving people away from New York... EMPIRE CENTER FOR NEW YORK STATE POLICY/WALL STREET JOURNAL Health Issues THE MALPRACTICE PROBLEM We can't have health care reform without tort reform, says Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, the associate dean of clinical education at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine... WEEKLY STANDARD Health Issues PENALTIES FOR NO INSURANCE Taxes or fines could be thousands of dollars a year for individuals and families who don't have health insurance if any of the health care overhauls currently being debated pass, say observers... ASSOCIATED PRESS/TOWNHALL.COM Health Issues AARP: REFORM ADVOCATE AND INSURANCE SALESMAN Why is a popular seniors group lobbying for a government-run health care bill that will pad their own executives' pockets at the expense of its own members and other vulnerable seniors, ask critics?... WASHINGTON POST State and Local Issues WHY CALIFORNAI IS IN FAST LANE TO INSOLVENCY California's fiscal house of cards was collapsing but the state's purchasing agents were conducting business as usual, say observers... SACRAMENTO BEE Social Issues THIS IS YOUR BRAIN WITHOUT DAD Scientists are now finding that growing up without a father actually changes the way your brain develops... INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY AT OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY/WALL STREET JOURNAL 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