Archive: 2009

Health Care

Effect of ObamaCare on Pennsylvania

• Nathan Benefield
• August 11, 2009

The Heritage Foundation has a new analysis from the Lewin Group on the impact in Pennsylvania on private health care coverage, the uninsured, and physicians and hospitals of the…

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Cut corporate taxes to keep Harley here

• August 11, 2009

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Health Care

Rendell Declares Autism Mandate a Failure

• Nathan Benefield
• August 10, 2009

In 2008, the Pennsylvania General Assembly passed, and Gov. Rendell signed, a new mandate that private insurers would have to cover autism services. At the time, we said the new…

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Education

School District Consolidation Shows Few Benefits

• Nathan Benefield
• August 10, 2009

Last week, the Senate Education Committee held a hearing on proposed school district consolidation. The Allegheny Institute testified, noting that there is little evidence to suggest that consolidation (as…

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State Budget

Cash for Clunkers Falls Prey to Laws of Economics

• Nathan Benefield
• August 10, 2009

Congress’s  ill-named “cash for clunkers” program has, like so many programs before it, failed to defy the laws of economics. As typically happens when government subsidizes something – the…

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Health Care

Join the “Mob”

• Nathan Benefield
• August 10, 2009

You might find it interesting that the special interests who denounce individuals voicing opposition to ObamaCare as “astroturf,” a “mob,” and part of a vast right-wing conspiracy (and occasionally…

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Government Accountability

Expose Media Bias, Make Money

• Elizabeth Stelle
• August 10, 2009

Tired of media bias, factual errors, and false assumptions? The National Review Institute is offering compensation for anyone who submits “short posts identifying the factual errors, lazy clichés, loaded terms,…

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Pennsylvania Governor Rendell doles out $361 million in borrowed money

• August 9, 2009

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Rendell’s to blame for budget impasse

• August 9, 2009

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