NCPA: Daily Policy Digest 10-30-2009

National Center for Policy Analysis Daily Policy Digest Friday, October 30, 2009 Yes, I want to support Daily Policy Digest and contribute today! Health Issues THE WELLPOINT REVELATION Private insurance premiums could triple under ObamaCare, according to report... WALL STREET JOURNAL Regulatory Issues A FINANCIAL SUPER-REGULATOR The Federal Reserve should not pre-emptively contain asset price surges or become a financial super-regulator, says Jagadeesh Gokhale, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute... FORTUNE Social Issues GOVERNMENT TAKEOVERS: IS CHARITY NEXT? Should the government do to philanthropy what it has done to General Motors?... MANHATTAN INSTITUTE/TOWNHALL.COM Social Issues AMNESTY? NOT SO FAST Providing health, housing, education and criminal justice for some 3 million illegal aliens costs California over $10 billion a year, according to some studies... JEWISH WORLD REVIEW/HOOVER INSITITUTION Social Issues THE LITTLE TUBER THAT GAVE US MODERNITY The introduction of the American potato to Europe and later Asia and Africa might have been one of the most significant events in the history of human development, say economics professors Nancy Qian and Nathan Nunn... FOREIGN POLICY Health Issues CBO UNDERESTIMATES BENEFITS OF MALPRACTICE REFORM A full accounting of medical malpractice reforms shows the benefits would be $242 billion a year, says Lawrence J. McQuillan, director of business and economic studies at the Pacific Research Institute... 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. Connect with the NCPA on: 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