Welfare

Pa’s Wayward Welfare State

• October 27, 2022

Summary Policies that expanded Medicaid eligibility to healthy, working-aged people and do not require the verification of eligibility have expanded the size and complexity of a program designed to focus…

Fact Sheet

The fallacy of SCHIP: It’s not ‘insurance’

• February 5, 2013

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Health Care

Federal Funds Create Perverse Incentives

• Elizabeth Stelle
• January 15, 2013

There’s no such thing as a free lunch, just like there’s no such thing as free money from the federal government. But you wouldn’t know that by reading a recent…

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Health Care

Medicaid Waivers & the Looming Fiscal Crisis

• Elizabeth Stelle
• April 9, 2012

In the waning days of 2008, the state of Rhode Island secured a global waiver for its Medicaid program. The waiver exempted the state from many federal rules and mandates in exchange for a…

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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

We’re No. 2 … in loss of employer health insurance

• October 17, 2008

Cross-posted on Capitol Domes   It should come as no surprise that universal health care proponents are spinning a report from an organization that supports universal…

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Health Care

Is “universal health care” a religion?

• Nathan Benefield
• July 8, 2008

Michael Cannon pulls a troubling quote from an advocate of SCHIP expansion, who admits his support is based on faith, not evidence. Of course Cannon is a well-known…

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Public Union Democracy

In Defense of RINO Hunting

• Nathan Benefield
• May 8, 2008

Pat Toomey lowers the hammer in the Wall Street Journal on the Republican establishment-types, who just want to win elections, regardless of policy, vision, or principles (note: this is…

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Health Care

Stateline: Socialized Medicine = Fiscally Conservative

• Nathan Benefield
• March 17, 2008

Stateline.org has an interesting article on health care funding in the states. The headline reads “On health care, govs are tightening belts.” Here are some examples of “belt-tightening”:…

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