NCPA Daily Policy Digest (8/9/10)

Health Issues

Medicare Chief Actuary Disavows Trustees' Report, Publishes an Alternative Report

For the first time in Medicare history, the Medicare Chief Actuary has called the projections in a Medicare Trustees Report "unreasonable" and "implausible" and encouraged everyone to ignore them and view instead an "Illustrative Alternative" report, says John C. Goodman, President, CEO and the Kellye Wright Fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis...

RIGHT SIDE NEWS

Economic Issues

More Stimulus Poison

Between 2000-2001 and 2008-2009, New York schools added 14,746 teachers and 8,655 nonteaching professionals -- even as enrollment was dropping by 121,280 pupils, says E.J. McMahon, director of the Manhattan Institute's Empire Center for New York State Policy...

NEW YORK POST

Economic Issues

Sovereign Debt Crises: It's All Greek To Me

Although the United States does not have the same fiscal problems as Greece, there are still issues of concern, says Bryan J. Noeth, research analyst at LIBER8...

FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF ST. LOUIS

Health Issues

Is Granny "disposable"?

Congress should convert Medicare from a defined benefits program to a defined contribution system, say experts...

HERITAGE FOUNDATION

Taxes

The Economic Case Against The Death Tax: No Purpose, No Reason, For The Death Tax

Outside the narrow special interests that benefit from the death tax, there no longer exists any justification for the tax, says tax analyst Curtis S. Dubay...

HERITAGE FOUNDATION

A Conversation with James Carville and Mary Matalin - Tuesday, Oct. 5

Washington's best-loved couple will give an enlightening and entertaining look at today's most important political issues as well as a behind-the-scenes look at Washington politics.

Carville and Matalin combine their unique experience as perennial political insiders to provide a stimulating, candid and provocative analysis of the day's headlines and today's hot-button political issues from both sides of the political aisle.