NCPA: Daily Policy Digest 11-13-2009

National Center for Policy Analysis Daily Policy Digest Friday, November 13, 2009 Yes, I want to support Daily Policy Digest and contribute today! Health Issues MEDICARE PLAGUED BY WASTE, FRAUD, ABUSE Medicare does not regularly review bills for accuracy and to prevent fraud, says Kevin Wrege, regional state affairs director for the Council for Affordable Health Insurance in Alexandria, Virginia... HEARTLAND INSTITUTE Economic Issues STIMULUS JOB BOOST IN MASS. EXAGGERATED, REVIEW FINDS The federal stimulus report for Massachusetts has so many errors, missing data or estimates instead of actual job counts that it may be impossible to accurately tally how many people have been employed by the massive infusion of federal money, say observers... BOSTON GLOBE Regulatory Issues END CLINTON-ERA MILITARY BASE GUN BAN Gun bans end up disarming potential victims and not criminals, say observers... WASHINGTON TIMES State and Local Issues BEYOND CALIFORNIA: STATES IN FISCAL PERIL Nine other states are set to face California's fiscal challenges, according to report... PEW CENTER ON THE STATES Economic Issues TRADE WRONGLY BLAMED FOR UNEMPLOYMENT The large majority of Americans who lose their jobs each year are not displaced by trade, says Daniel Griswold, director of the Center for Trade Policy Studies at the Cato Institute... CATO INSTITUTE Health Issues DON'T LET THEM BUY POLICIES Insurance for illegal immigrants means longer waits and higher costs, says Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform... USA TODAY 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