NCPA: Daily Policy Digest 12-14-2009

National Center for Policy Analysis Daily Policy Digest Monday, December 14, 2009 There are more than 500,000 subscribers that receive the Daily Policy Digest. Help us hit 1 million by Forwarding to a Friend. Yes, I want to support Daily Policy Digest and contribute today! Health Issues SENATE BILL'S 'BOTAX' WRINKLES NOSES Elective cosmetic surgery is perceived as a luxury good and is therefore an easy target for reformers looking for means of funding health reform, says Devon Herrick, a health economist with the National Center for Policy Analysis... HOUSTON CHRONICLE Economic Issues FOR FEDS, MORE GET SIX-FIGURE SALARIES Federal workers are enjoying an extraordinary boom time -- in pay and hiring -- during a recession that has cost 7.3 million jobs in the private sector... USA TODAY Global Warming CARBON TRADING FRAUDSTERS IN EUROPE POCKET $7.3 BILLION It is estimated that in some countries, up to 90 percent of the whole market volume for carbon trading was caused by fraudulent activities, says Europol, the European law enforcement agency... TELEGRAPH State and Local Issues MICHIGAN'S AUTO INSURERS MAKE ONLY A SMALL PROFIT The real reason for Michigan's exorbitant insurance premiums is not unrestrained greed from insurers, but the unrestrained costs of writing insurance in the state, says Michelle Minton, Director of Insurance Studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute... DETROIT NEWS Crime STUDY SHOWS STATE'S HOMICIDE RATE PREDICTED ITS TRAFFIC FATALITIES Some populations are more violent and aggressive than others, and this aggression leads both to dangerous driving and to a higher murder rate, says Michael Sivak, a psychologist at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute in Ann Arbor... FOXNEWS International Issues CZECHS LEGALIZE CANNABIS The Czech government has decriminalized the cultivation and possession of Cannabis by individuals... 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