Health Care

Medicaid Reforms Start with the States

  • Elizabeth Stelle
  • March 2, 2011

Medicaid spending threatens to consume the entire Pennsylvania state budget, and we aren’t alone. Without greater flexibility, states will be forced to cut services, raise taxes or drop out…

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Spending Transparency Coming to Pennsylvania?

  • Elizabeth Stelle
  • March 2, 2011

PennWATCH (House Bill 15), sponsored by Rep. Jim Christiana, would create a user-friendly database with searchable information on all state government spending. The bill passed the Pennsylvania House unanimously on…

Commentary

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Regulation

PLCB Wants to Imitate Private Retailer

  • March 1, 2011

After CF’s Nathan Benefield testified last week to the Pennsylvania House Democratic Policy Committee on the benefits of liquor store privatization, special interest groups testified that allowing the…

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Regulation

Benefits of Liquor Store Privatization for Pennsylvanians

  • Nathan Benefield
  • February 25, 2011

Good morning. I am Nathan Benefield, Director of Policy Research for the Commonwealth Foundation.  We are a nonprofit, independent public policy research and educational institute based in Harrisburg.

Testimony

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Regulation

And the Oscar for Higher Taxes Goes to?

  • February 24, 2011

Given that Gov. Corbett may end Pennsylvania’s $75 million film tax credit program, the film industry is out in force to prove it’s more unique than other industries, saying it…

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