Health Care

The Case for Nurse Practitioner Reform: Full Practice Authority in Pennsylvania

• Dr. David Mitchell, Dr. Moiz Bhai
• December 5, 2022

Key Points More than 580,000 Pennsylvanians live in areas with a shortage of primary care professionals relative to the population. This shortage exists throughout the state but concentrates in rural…

Backgrounder

Health Care

Report: Access to Health Care in Pa. Stymied by Restrictive State Laws

• November 15, 2022

Harrisburg, PA – A new report from the Commonwealth Foundation, Pennsylvania’s leading free-market public policy research organization, found that Pennsylvania state laws that restrict the work of advanced practice…

Press Release

Health Care

How Full Practice Authority Can Increase Access and Improve Outcomes

• November 15, 2022

Key Findings Marylanders in border counties have better health care outcomes, including fewer residents reporting fair or poor health and fewer residents with poor mental health days.Before full practice authority,…

Report

Criminal Justice Reform

Juvenile Justice Reform

• Jessica Barnett
• August 3, 2022

Key Points The Pennsylvania Juvenile Justice Task Force (Task Force) found most youth entering the juvenile justice system committed low-level offenses and are “low risk to reoffend.”[1]Studies…

Backgrounder

State Budget

How Government Overspending Hurts Pennsylvania Families

• Andrew Holman, Nathan Benefield
• January 31, 2022

Key Points Excessive government spending and borrowing is causing record-setting inflation and severe supply chain shortages.Voters want fiscal restraint from their government.High taxes and spending are making Pennsylvania uncompetitive, costing…

Backgrounder

Public Sector Union 2020 Election Spending

• Jessica Barnett
• March 18, 2021

Public sector union political action committees (PAC) spent $16.7 million in Pennsylvania during the 2019–2020 election cycle, principally on behalf of Democratic politicians.

Backgrounder

An election crisis like no other?

• Elizabeth Stelle
• December 24, 2020

If you think 2020 is bad, you don’t know 1876.

Commentary

Key Issues to Remember as Pennsylvania Counts Its Ballots

• Colleen Hroncich
• November 4, 2020

This election has sucked all the oxygen out of the room for too long. It’s a sign that government in Washington, D.C. has grown way beyond its constitutional bounds. But…

Commentary

Health Care

How to Vote in PA Q&A

• Stefanie Mason
• October 6, 2020

Election Day is Tuesday, November 3. In Pennsylvania, voters are navigating how to cast their ballots during this pandemic era. …

Fact Sheet