Health Care
Pennsylvania Universal Health Care Act
Record Tax Hikes to Empower Bureaucrats Over Patients Summary Pennsylvania’s health care system is broken. Provider shortages persist as premiums increase. Far from being a free market, federal and state…
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Pennsylvania Health-Care Freedom on Life Support
Pennsylvania’s health care freedom is in a free fall. The Knee Regulatory Research Center at West Virginia University’s new report, Health Freedom: A 50-State Freedom Index…
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Pinching Pennies: How Government Intervention in Health Care Failed
Pennsylvania’s Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace, Pennie, has—despite its name—an affordability problem. Premiums and out-of-pocket costs keep rising despite—or rather because of—the government’s attempt to control both. The common explanation…
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Personal Option Needed
Originally published by The Philadelphia Inquirer. The Editorial Board is right: Washington is failing patients. But a public option would only make…
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Health Care is Too Expensive. Governor Shapiro Can Do Something About It.
Declining enrollment in Pennie, Pennsylvania’s “answer” to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), is proof that health insurance is still too expensive. The enhanced COVID-19 subsidies temporarily hid the cost for…
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Obamacare Did Not Lower Costs. It Is Time for a Better Approach.
Originally published in RealClearPennsylvania. After more than a decade dealing with the so-called Affordable Care Act (aka “Obamacare”), Americans are still struggling with rising health care…
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Obamacare Fraud is Out of Control
Here’s the Commonwealth Foundation’s weekly news roundup of policy issues debated in Harrisburg and across Pennsylvania.Happy Hanukkah and Merry Christmas! Obamacare Fraud and the Future of Affordable Healthcare In Pennsylvania,…
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Extending Enhanced Premium Tax Credits Will Make Health Care More Expensive
The federal government shutdown centers on a debate about health care costs. More specifically, enhanced premium tax credits—built into the Affordable Care Act (ACA) during the COVID-19 pandemic—will expire by…
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Five Facts Everyone Needs to Know About Medicaid
Medicaid is broken, and restoring the federal program to its original intent is crucial to saving this vital health care safety net. This requires fiscal sanity in Washington, D.C. Yet,…
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