NCPA: Daily Policy Digest 1-14-2010

National Center for Policy Analysis Daily Policy Digest Thursday, January 14, 2010 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 RETAIL CLINICS: CONVENIENT AND AFFORDABLE CARE Increasingly, patients have less costly and more convenient options for routine medical needs: retail walk-in clinics, says Devon Herrick, a Senior Fellow with the NCPA... NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS Taxes THE IRS SHOULD FIX ITSELF FIRST The U.S. tax code ranks 122nd in complexity among 175 nations worldwide, according to study... MANHATTAN INSTITUTE/REAL CLEAR MARKETS Health Issues CANADIANS LESS FIT THAN THEY USED TO BE Canadians of all ages have become substantially fatter and less fit over the last two decades, according to study... CANADIAN HEALTH MEASURES SURVEY/UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Economic Issues PENSION CRISIS THREATENS FINANCIAL HEALTH OF STATES State employee pension systems are facing severe shortfalls, and these growing liabilities threaten to drive many states deeper into the red, say observers... AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL Economic Issues THERE IS AN ENDLESS NUMBER OF JOBS The best thing Congress could do if it really cared about job creation would be to lower or eliminate the minimum wage, say observers... MACKINAC CENTER 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 2003-2010 National Center for Policy Analysis - All rights reserved