Health Care

Helping the Uninsured

• Nathan Benefield
• June 25, 2009

I had a brief debate via Twitter (I guess it is impossible to have anything but a brief debate on Twitter) with a staffer for the Pennsylvania House…

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Government Accountability

Term Limits Needed in Pennsylvania

• Nathan Benefield
• March 17, 2009

John Baer writes that the recent Vince Fumo conviction – the latest in a long history of corruption by long-time Pennsylvania lawmakers – is another reason why Pennsylvania…

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Taxes & Economy

A bailout of the states rewards fiscal recklessness

• Nathan Benefield
• January 26, 2009

The Wall Street Journal has a great article and graph (to the right) on how states have overspent, and are certainly not in need of a bailout from…

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State Budget

Earmarks Galore

• Nathan Benefield
• December 13, 2008

Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn has a new report on the most outrageous examples of federal spending.  Some of the top examples, courtesy of the Center for Fiscal Accountability:…

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Government Accountability

Update: State Spending Transparency

• Elizabeth Stelle
• October 3, 2008

A reader emailed to ask if there are examples of states with online spending databases. Indeed states across the country are adopting transparency legislation while state officials and think tanks…

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Health Care

Rendell still pushing RendellCare

• Nathan Benefield
• February 5, 2008

Within the last few weeks, three state health care proposals fundamentally similar to Governor Rendell’s “Cover All Pennsylvanians” added to my “bad ideas pile” California legislators overwhelming rejected…

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Health Care

Maine’s Failed Health Reforms

• Nathan Benefield
• January 31, 2008

Greg Scandlen weighs in on the failure of Maine’s Dirigo Care program: 1. After 20 months of operation only 11,000 were enrolled in DirigoChoice (out of a total…

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States’ “Universal” Health Care plans not delivering

• Nathan Benefield
• November 13, 2007

Mandates and government-run health insurance programs have failed to provide “universal health care” in Maine: Maine’s uninsured rate did not improve significantly between 2003 and 2006 despite…

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The Disaster that Is Dirigo

• Nathan Benefield
• April 30, 2007

Michael Cannon on the failures and unintended consequences of Maine’s universal health care program, Dirigo.

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