Allyson Y Schwartz

Paying for results, not treatments

2012-12-31 00:00:00

One of the fundamental problems in the U.S. healthcare system is that the most common and straightforward payment method — paying a fee for each service rendered — encourages doctors and hospitals to provide more care, not better care. In...

Anthony Weiner's resignation now sought by a growing list of people who were not sexted by him

2011-06-08 16:37:25

More scrutiny for Obama's proposal to curb Medicare costs

2011-04-20 16:35:30

Obama hails extending (Bush) tax cuts as middle-class victory; is compromise erupting?

2010-12-17 21:35:48

Casey, Toomey on Senate committee that will investigate IRS next week

2013-05-16 07:53:00

Pennsylvania's two U.S. senators sit on the powerful tax-writing Senate Finance Committee, which will begin its investigation of the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups at a hearing on Tuesday. Republicans and Democrats are...

Sestak to skip governor's race, seek Senate in 2016

2013-05-15 08:44:02

Former Democratic U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak said Tuesday that he planned to run for the Senate in 2016, setting the table for an eventual rematch with Republican Sen. Pat Toomey. The decision helps shape the Democratic race for the nomination to challenge...

Sestak won't run for Pa. governor; might seek rematch with Sen. Toomey in 2016

2013-05-14 10:28:00

Former U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak has ruled out a campaign for Pennsylvania governor, but he said Tuesday that he is seriously exploring another run for U.S. Senate, possibly setting up a rematch against Republican Sen. Pat Toomey in 2016. Sestak said he...

Philadelphia Daily News John Baer column

2013-05-13 01:34:02

GOV. CORBETT Re: Re-election Look, I know things aren't going all that well. There's your dismal poll numbers. And fallout from that thing you said about the state's unemployed being too high to get jobs. And that sorta dovetailed with that...

Interests of candidate, supporter and spouse align

2013-05-08 18:03:00

WASHINGTON — An issue at the top of U.S. Rep. Allyson Schwartz's legislative agenda is also of foremost concern to her biggest campaign contributor: the University of Pennsylvania, where her husband is a doctor. Schwartz, a suburban Philadelphia...

Gov. Tom Corbett blames workers, again, for state's job growth fiasco

2013-05-02 14:33:00

When Tom Corbett was running for governor in 2010, he argued that the business community was suffering because Pennsylvania's workers were too lazy to wean themselves from the unemployment benefits being extended by those nasty Democrats in Washington....

Poll: Three Democratic challengers would easily beat Republican Gov. Tom Corbett in 2014 re-election

2013-04-29 13:13:24

Republican Gov. Tom Corbett would get trounced by any one of three Democrats if the gubernatorial election were to be held today, in part because he would lose the independent and female vote by large margins, according to the latest Quinnipiac University...

Poll: Three Democratic challengers would easily beat Republican Gov. Tom Corbett in 2014 contest

2013-04-29 16:15:44

Republican Gov. Tom Corbett would get trounced by any one of three Democrats if the gubernatorial election were held today, in part because he would lose the independent and female vote by large margins, according to the latest Quinnipiac University poll....

Congressional women, including U.S. Rep. Allyson Schwartz, address DNC on Tuesday

2012-09-04 19:21:00