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Are we Making Progress? Does the 2006-2007 State Budget Improve Pennsylvania's Education Funding System?
(July 7, 2006)
Ron Cowell, Education Policy Leadership Center


What do you think about the recent pay hikes and the cost of Pennsylvania's legislature?
(July 18, 2005)
Brad Bumsted, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, July 18, 2005
John Grogan, Philadelphia Inquirer, July 18, 2005
The Sentinel, July 14 2005


Given the likely continued growth of healthcare spending, what is the most important action for state government to take in the next year to control or decrease healthcare costs?
(November 11, 2004)
Peter D. Achor, Vice President, Corporate Communications and Marketing, Pennsylvania Medical Society
Mark Volavka, Executive Director, Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council
Floyd Warner, President, Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry
Carolyn Scanlan, President and CEO, Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania
Karen Wolk Feinstein, Co-founder, Pittsburgh Regional Health Care Initiative
Rosemarie B. Greco, Director, Governor's Office of Health Care Reform
Michael McCarthy, President, PA Business Roundtable
Beaufort B. Longest , M. Allen Pond Professor of Health Policy and Management and Director, Health Policy Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health
William M. George, President, Pennsylvania AFL-CIO


Is Pennsylvania’s waste and storm water infrastructure up to current challenges? How can federal, state and local governments assure public health and safety now and into the future?
(September 30, 2004)
Jeffrey Hines, Vice President Engineering, The York Water Company, on behalf of the National Association of Water Companies
Ariel Hegedus, Clean Water Associate, PennEnvironment
John Brosious , Deputy Director, Pennsylvania Municipal Authorities Association
Joshua Donner, Senior Policy Analyst, Allegheny Conference on Community Development


What are key considerations in the ongoing debate over medical malpractice reform? How should issues of patient safety be incorporated into the policy discussions?
(June 19, 2004)
William Sage, Principal Investigator , Project on Medical Liability in Pennsylvania


What policy solutions should be considered to resolve the medical malpractice crisis? Is patient safety the key? Are caps on non-economic damages the answer?
(January 29, 2004)
Daniel Fee, Pennsylvania Citizens for Fairness
Douglas Clark, Richard L. Jones, Jr., and Gerald Miller, The Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania
Senator Jeff Piccola, State Senate
Susan M. Liss and Dr. William M. Sage, The Project on Medical Liability in Pennsylvania


Brain Drain or Brain Overflow?
(November 13, 2003)
F. Michael Langley, CEO, Allegheny Conference on Community Development


What must be considered in the resolution of the medical liability crisis in Pennsylvania?
(November 3, 2003)
Andrew Wigglesworth, President, Delaware Valley Healthcare Council
Carolyn Scanlan, President and CEO, The Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania
Roger Mecum, Executive Vice President, Pennsylvania Medical Society


What are the key considerations regarding equity in public education?
(November 3, 2003)
Jack Wagner, State Senator, D-Pittsburgh
Tim Potts, Director, Pennsylvania School Reform Network


The Cost of Courage -- America's physicians, sworn to protect their patients from harm, increasingly face a surprising obstacle -- their own hospitals. Instead of praise and support, they can find themselves shunned, and even dismissed. An investigation by the Post-Gazette Staff Writer Steve Twedt.
(October 30, 2003)
Steve Twedt, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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