NCPA Daily Policy Digest (11/13/09)
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National Center for Policy AnalysisDaily Policy DigestFriday, November 13, 2009 |
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Health Issues MEDICARE PLAGUED BY WASTE, FRAUD, ABUSEMedicare 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 FINDSThe 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 BANGun bans end up disarming potential victims and not criminals, say observers... WASHINGTON TIMES State and Local Issues BEYOND CALIFORNIA: STATES IN FISCAL PERILNine other states are set to face California's fiscal challenges, according to report... PEW CENTER ON THE STATES Economic Issues TRADE WRONGLY BLAMED FOR UNEMPLOYMENTThe 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 POLICIESInsurance for illegal immigrants means longer waits and higher costs, says Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform... USA TODAY |
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