Day: July 1, 2013

GOP Saves Health Care For Needy

GOP Saves Health Care For Needy — State Rep. Ryan Aument (R-41) has tweeted that “Medicaid Expansion effort in the PA House fails by a 108-94 vote. A major win for Pennsylvania taxpayers.”

The plan as approved in the state Senate was to expand  Medicaid to low-income workers without considering how the expansion would be funded in the long term or expanding the existing number of doctors much less those willing to accept Medicaid patients. This would have meant that those now eligible for the program would have had to fight with the newcomers for attention from the existing pool of doctors willing to treat them.

GOP Saves Health Care For Needy

Omnibit Of The Day

Ask yourself why anyone would want to walk 871 miles on his hands from Vienna, Austria to Paris, France. Johann Huslinger did it circa 1900.

— William W. Lawrence Sr.

Public Schools Fewer Students More Staff

Public Schools Fewer Students More Staff — For those who wonder why life seems to be getting harder with regard to the tax burden consider this tidbit from Commonwealth Foundation — Since 2000, public school enrollment has dropped by 60,000 students while staffing is up 17,000.

If the  cost — salaries, benefits, insurance, tuition etc. —  to the taxpayer for  each extra staffer is about $75,000 then the taxpayer is unnecessarily burdened by $1.275 billion.

And remember, in a sane world you need actually need fewer staff for fewer students.

Public Schools Fewer Students More Staff