State Budget

Medicaid: Breaking the Back of State Budgets

• Nathan Benefield
• January 13, 2011

Last week, 30 Republican governors and governors-elect, including Tom Corbett, sent a letter to the Obama administration and members of Congress asking for greater flexibility in managing their Medicaid…

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Health Care

A Free Market in Health Care?!?

• Nathan Benefield
• November 1, 2010

A commenter on our latest Policy Points on Health Care Reform describes health care as “the free market, unregulated situation at the time the Act was passed.” I’m not…

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Health Care

Is FactCheck Recycling Talking Points on ObamaCare?

• Nathan Benefield
• October 29, 2010

Here is an email I sent to FactCheck.org: Your recent article claims insurance premiums won’t go up. Are you kidding? Simple economics, or the experience of states like…

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Health Care

Health Care Reform: An Update

• October 27, 2010

Before enacting the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said Congress had to pass the bill before we'd find out what's in…

Fact Sheet

Beware of Looming Medicaid Increases

• October 26, 2010

A recent article by the National Center for Policy Analysis showed why states are going to be bankrupted by the Medicaid provisions of the Patient Protection and…

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Health Care

More Side Effects of Obamacare

• Elizabeth Stelle
• October 18, 2010

Every day it seems we are hearing more bad news about the effects of the new health care reform law. From rising premiums to narrowing coverage, the side effects…

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Health Care

ObamaCare will Dramatically Increase Medicaid Costs in PA

• Elizabeth Stelle
• October 6, 2010

A reader asked us what kind of effect ObamaCare would have on Medicaid costs in Pennsylvania. We’ve put together some numbers, and it’s not pretty. First of all, even without…

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Taxes & Economy

Immigration Verification and Welfare Fraud

• Elizabeth Stelle, Nathan Benefield
• October 6, 2010

Thank you for allowing the Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives, a non-partisan educational institute based in Harrisburg, to submit written testimony concerning HB 1359, which would require proof of…

Testimony

Health Care

“Explaining” ObamaCare

• Nathan Benefield
• August 24, 2010

Merrill Matthews has a piece up on Forbes.com on why ObamaCare needs explaining…to those who voted for it. The report also says, “It is critical to reassure seniors…

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