Education

What Does This Blog Post Inspire You to Do?

• Nathan Benefield
• September 3, 2009

When I first heard of President Obama’s planned speech to all students, I didn’t think much of it. I imagined he’d say things like “Don’t do drugs! Stay in school!”…

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Health Care

Is Individual Mandate Worse than “Public Option”?

• Nathan Benefield
• September 1, 2009

Cato’s Michael Cannon has a commentary on the effects of an individual mandate to buy health insurance. His poster child is chief spokesman critic of Obama’s health care proposals,…

Media

Health Care

What’s Wrong with Medicare

• Nathan Benefield
• August 31, 2009

Defenders of national health care proposals try to make the claim – in response to critics – that government-run health care is pretty good, citing Medicare (and Medicaid).  So what’s…

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Health Care

ObamaCare Is Bad Medicine for Pennsylvania

• Nathan Benefield
• August 25, 2009

America faces divergent prescriptions for health care reform—one calling for more government control, the other for patient empowerment.   Unfortunately President Obama, Governor Rendell, and Democrats in Congress and…

Commentary

Health Care

Explaining the Town-Hall Protests

• Nathan Benefield
• August 24, 2009

John Goodman – the health care policy guru, not the star of Arachnophobia – has an editorial in Friday’s Wall Street Journal on those protesting Obama’s version of health…

Media

Health Care

Post-Gazette Combats Health Care “Lies” With Actual Lies

• Nathan Benefield
• August 21, 2009

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist Sally Kalson has a ridiculous piece on health care reform (HT PA Watercooler), in which she admittedly fabricates a number of proposals she “imagines” Republicans would…

Media

Who is Blogging about CF?

• Nathan Benefield
• August 20, 2009

Lots of love from the Blogosphere about Commonwealth Foundation studies, events, are blog posts this week: Tony Phyrillas writes about the high level of debt in Pennsylvania state…

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Health Care

Obama’s “Co-operative” Trojan Horse

• August 20, 2009

With the public voicing overwhelming concern over the potential effects Obama’s “public option” could have on America’s healthcare industry, the White House now has its back against the wall. Progressives…

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Health Care

The Prognosis for National Health Insurance: A Pennsylvania Perspective

• August 19, 2009

In 1960, the private sector funded over three quarters of the nation’s health care expenditures.  Individuals paid nearly one-half of the total national health care expenditures through out of pocket…

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