Adding Up the Reasons For Expensive Health Care

  • Nathan Benefield
  • February 15, 2007

Washington Post article details why healthcare is so expensive in the US. Doctor’s pay, unnecessary testing, and hospital amenities play a major role (and the third-party payer model falls…

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Regulation

What Happened to Yesterday’s Hometown Heroes?

  • February 6, 2007

Each morning my local county newspaper shows up late. Speaking with the delivery man and calling the office hasn’t changed things. So, rather than canceling the 20,089 daily circulation paper…

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Union Membership Declines Again

  • Nathan Benefield
  • January 26, 2007

BLS Annual Report on Union Membership finds that union membership in PA and in the US declined again last year. Whatever will Bill George do?…

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Health Care

Governor Rendell’s Healthcare Misdiagnosis

  • Nathan Benefield
  • January 25, 2007

As healthcare costs continue to rise faster than consumers’ ability to pay, it is clear that we need to alter how we pay for healthcare. Recently, Governor Rendell unveiled a…

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Earmark Entertainment

  • Nathan Benefield
  • January 12, 2007

Wall Street Journal article on how US Senate Democrats are opposing the earmark reform passed by House Democrats.

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Dubai firm to sell U.S. ports

  • Nathan Benefield
  • December 15, 2006

Dubai Ports World is selling their US Ports operations to AIG. Here are all the changes planned after a year of the Dubai firm and several years of a…

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Turnpike Lease is Win-Win for Taxpayers, Lawmakers

  • Nathan Benefield
  • December 12, 2006

Governor Rendell’s recent announcement that the state would seek “expressions of interest” on a lease of the Pennsylvania Turnpike is a recognition of the potential benefits of public-private partnerships (P3s)…

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Republican Rehab

  • Nathan Benefield
  • November 28, 2006

Wall Street Journal article on the US Senators who are actually fighting against pork-barrel spending.

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