NCPA: Daily Policy Digest 12-18-2009

National Center for Policy Analysis Daily Policy Digest Friday, December 18, 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 WAYS TO SLASH YOUR HEALTH COSTS There are many overlooked ways to trim your health costs and still get the care you need, says Devon Herrick, a health economist with the National Center for Policy Analysis... PR NEWSWIRE Health Issues HEALTH REFORM: BLAME MITT Even with the so-called "public option" out of the Senate health care reform bill, the final product increasingly looks like the failed Massachusetts experiment, says health economist Michael Tanner... CATO INSTITUTE Health Issues OBAMACARE'S HSA PROMISE -- AND PERIL Unfortunately, obscure details buried deep in the Democrats' health care reform legislation could easily kill health savings accounts with the stroke of a pen, says Paul Howard, Director of the Center for Medical Progress at the Manhattan Institute... TOWNHALL.COM Health Issues GUARANTEED ISSUE: "YOU'LL SELL IT OR ELSE" Under guaranteed issue mandates, "access to coverage" becomes "access to higher premiums," says Dr. Linda Halderman, a General Surgeon and policy adviser in the California State Senate... AMERICAN THINKER Global Warming HADLEY CENTER AND CRU APPARENTLY CHERRY-PICKED RUSSIA'S CLIMATE DATA It is necessary to recalculate all global temperature data in order to assess the real rate of temperature change during the last century, according to an Institute of Economic Analysis report... CATO INSTITUTE Taxes PITTSBURGH SETS VOTE ON TUITION TAX Pittsburgh's tax on college tuition would be the first of its kind in the nation, say observers... NEW YORK TIMES 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