NCPA: Daily Policy Digest 11-05-2009

National Center for Policy Analysis Daily Policy Digest Thursday, November 5, 2009 Yes, I want to support Daily Policy Digest and contribute today! Health Issues REPUBLICAN HEALTH PLAN WOULD REDUCE PREMIUMS, CUT DEFICIT The Republican health care plan would reduce health care premiums and cut the deficit by $68 billion over ten years, according to the Congressional Budget Office... WASHINGTON EXAMINER Health Issues BAUCUS BILL DOES NOT BEND THE COST CURVE The Baucus health care reform bill will not lower costs but instead add to the deficit, increase total health spending and add costs and deliver little savings to consumers, according to a report from the Lewin Group... HERITAGE FOUNDATION Health Issues THE COSTS OF DEFENSIVE MEDICINE Doctors say the price of defensive medicine and malpractice insurance accounts for up to 10 percent of health care spending... ASSOCIATED PRESS Health Issues THE PUBLIC'S BEST OPTION: LESS GOVERNMENT, MORE CHOICE When compulsion takes the place of competition, the result is invariably less choice at higher cost, says columnist Jeff Jacoby... JEWISH WORLD REVIEW Health Issues THE HEALTH CARE DISASTER IN CANADA We cannot cover 36 million new patients without more doctors and nurses, much less with the declining census of medical professionals the Canadian experience points to, say columnists Dick Morris and Eileen McGann... JEWISH WORLD REVIEW Economic Issues TEN PRINCIPLES FOR TAX REFORM: PRINCIPLE THREE Tax bases should be broad, tax rates low and exemptions and concessions few, says Robert Carling, a Senior Fellow at the Center for Independent Study... POLICY 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