Health Care

PPACA Will Put a Quarter of Pennsylvanians on Medicaid

• Elizabeth Stelle
• March 23, 2012

There is no shortage of media coverage marking PPACA’s two year anniversary, but one statistic from the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare did grab my attention: Instead of…

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Second Anniversary of the Affordable Care Act

• March 23, 2012

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Health Care

CF Joins More than 400 State Lawmakers in Brief on Health Care Law

• Nathan Benefield
• February 14, 2012

The Commonwealth Foundation joined 17 other organizations and 333 state legislators from across the country in an amicus curiae brief challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act passed…

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Criminal Justice Reform

Fiscal Outlook for Pennsylvania: Not Too Rosy

• Nathan Benefield
• January 20, 2012

This week the new Pennsylvania Independent Fiscal Office held its first annual seminar on the state economy and revenue. After a series of presentations on the state of the…

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Health Care

No Rush on Health Insurance Exchanges

• Elizabeth Stelle
• December 22, 2011

In late November the Department of Insurance announced that Pennsylvania would begin implementing a state health insurance exchange as laid out in PPACA (the Patient Protection and Affordable Care…

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Health Care

How Much Will Obamacare Cost You?

• Elizabeth Stelle
• December 9, 2011

The federal health care overhaul will be paid for with spending cuts and an estimated $420 billion in new taxes. How much of that $420 billion will come out of your pocket?…

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Taxes & Economy

Who’s Nutty Now?

• Charles Mitchell
• August 8, 2011

There’s a ton of chatter out there right now about how nutty the Tea Party is, most recently with 29 percent of voters saying Tea Party members are “economic…

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Health Care

Pennsylvania Welfare Spending & Medicaid

• May 20, 2011

Gov. Tom Corbett's proposed FY 2011-12 budget would represent the first time General Fund spending on the Department of Public Welfare would exceed that for the Department of Education.

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Health Care

Rescuing the States from Medicaid

• Elizabeth Stelle
• May 19, 2011

State Medicaid spending has increased four times faster than elementary and secondary education spending and nine times faster than transportation spending over the past two decades. In Pennsylvania,…

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