Health Care

4 Obamacare Failures & How to Fix Them

• Elizabeth Stelle
• January 19, 2017

For almost seven years the benefits of Obamacare have been exaggerated and the costs severely underestimated. As repeal efforts gain momentum, many are understandably uncomfortable about another dramatic shift in…

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Policy Briefing Handbook

• December 5, 2016

State Budget & Tax Policy 3 Steps to an Honest Budget…

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Education

Hits and Misses from the 2015-16 Legislative Session

• Elizabeth Stelle
• December 5, 2016

That's a wrap. The 2015-16 legislative session is officially in the history books. Despite a $650 million tax hike, Pennsylvanians have a lot to celebrate from the past two years.

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Health Care

Painful Year for Pennsylvanians on the Obamacare Exchange

• Elizabeth Stelle
• November 1, 2016

Today marks the fifth open enrollment season for Obamacare's insurance exchange. As predicted, premiums continue to skyrocket. In fact, Pennsylvania's premium increases are among the highest in the…

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Health Care

Record Premium Hikes Hit Pa. Exchange

• Elizabeth Stelle
• October 18, 2016

Pennsylvanians shopping on the health care exchange are in for a rude awakening. Yesterday the Insurance Department announced premiums for individual plans will increase by an average of 32…

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Health Care

Obamacare is Failing, But States can Bring Hope

• Elizabeth Stelle
• August 29, 2016

Obamacare is struggling for survival. Despite victories in the courts, state exchanges are in trouble, and Medicaid expansion has been more costly than expected—with no evidence of improved health outcomes.

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Health Care

6 Reasons Obamacare is a Failure

• Elizabeth Stelle
• March 23, 2016

Lower costs? Improved access? Six years later, the Affordable Care Act still falls painfully short of these noble goals. Years after most of the ACA's “goodies” have been implemented,…

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Health Care

6 Reasons Not to Celebrate Obamacare’s 6th Anniversary

• March 21, 2016

6 Reasons Not to Celebrate Obamacare’s 6th Anniversary Problems Persist as Health Care System Flounders March 21, 2016, HARRISBURG, Pa.—Lower costs? Improved access? Promises made—and broken—in the…

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Education

Redesigning Government to Balance State and Local Budgets

• February 8, 2016

Pennsylvania taxpayers shoulder the 15th highest state and local tax burden in the country. Consequently, the Keystone State has seen an exodus of working people. Unsustainable growth in…

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