Healthcare Problems Require Personal Solutions

• Elizabeth Stelle
• October 17, 2014

Next month, Obamacare enrollment will start anew. Rather than a solution to an ailing healthcare system, this promises mass confusion, higher prices, and more families looking for help. …

Commentary

Health Care

Protected from Obamacare

• Elizabeth Stelle
• March 31, 2014

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act promised to provide more affordable and better health care for all. Unfortunately, the law has delivered just the opposite—so much so that President…

Media

Public Union Democracy

Pennsylvania Next in Union Crosshairs

• Nathan Benefield, Priya Brannick
• January 24, 2014

Government union leaders are ramping up their attack messaging machine in Pennsylvania and planning a rally to bully state lawmakers as they did in Wisconsin and Michigan. But…

Media

Health Care

Obamacare Glitches or Meaningful Refom

• Elizabeth Stelle
• October 10, 2013

The federal Obamacare exchanges opened for business more than a week ago, yet users have been unable to log in (much less get affordable insurance) and hit with…

Media

Health Care

Obamacare Failure: Goodbye Jobs

• Elizabeth Stelle
• July 12, 2013

Last week, the Obama administration tried to sneak through an Affordable Care Act (ACA) bombshell—the delay of the employer mandate. What does this mean? Basically, it acknowledges that as…

Media

Health Care

Corbett’s Wise Medicaid Stance

• Elizabeth Stelle
• April 30, 2013

While advocates of expanding the welfare state are using new studies to push Gov. Tom Corbett to expand Medicaid, his position of resisting the “free money” argument is wise given…

Media

State Budget

Corbett’s Medicaid Decision Could Save Jobs

• Nathan Benefield
• February 11, 2013

The Affordable Care Act—often dubbed Obamacare—included 20 new taxes or tax increases. As these taxes are beginning to go into effect, businesses are starting to feel the impact, and…

Media

Health Care

Affordable Care Act: Costs to Pennsylvanians

• February 4, 2013

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act—often dubbed "Obamacare"—will cost Americans $1.2 trillion from 2012 to 2022 according to the Congressional Budget Office. These projections do not account for the…

Fact Sheet

Regulation

Pennsylvania’s Tax Burden Ranks 10th (Again), but Pension Bomb Ticking

• Priya Brannick
• November 16, 2012

Last week, America kept its president and Congress, and Pennsylvania’s legislature stayed largely the same too. There’s another thing that Pennsylvanians can count on—ranking 10th in the United States for…

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