Nathan Benefield is the Director of Policy Research with the Commonwealth Foundation, an independent, non-profit public policy research and educational institute located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Nathan has researched and written on public policy issues including taxation, government spending, education reform, transportation funding, health care policy, and economic development. Nathan has had editorials featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, the Allentown Morning Call, and dozen of other papers across Pennsylvania. Nathan has provided testimony to Pennsylvania House and Senate Committees related to the state budget and transportation funding.
Nathan is a graduate of DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois, also earning a masters degree in public service management from DePaul. He is currently working to complete his doctoral dissertation in political science from Loyola University of Chicago.
Nathan is a resident of Camp Hill, Pennsylvania.
Friday, September 25, 2009
A colleague at the Commonwealth Foundation sent me an article in which Mitt Romney again declares Massachusetts health care reform a success, claiming the increase in taxpayer spending was "only" $700 ... more »»
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Monday, August 31, 2009
Defenders of national health care proposals try to make the claim - in response to critics - that government-run health care is pretty good, citing Medicare (and Medicaid). So what's wrong with "Medicare for All"? - Medicare's coverage is not that good
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Thursday, July 2, 2009
On nearly a straight-party-line vote, the Pennsylvania House has passed legislation (HB 1) that would significantly enhance the benefits provided to enrollees in the Pennsylvania adultBasic health insurance program for ... more »»
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Monday, August 24, 2009
The Commonwealth Foundation released a new report showing that President Obama’s proposed takeover of health care by the federal government would have dramatically negative ... more »»
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Friday, August 21, 2009
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist Sally Kalson has a ridiculous piece on health care reform (HT PA Watercooler), in which she admittedly fabricates a number of proposals she "imagines" Republicans would propose on health care. She then claims that ... more »»
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009
 I'm sure by now everyone has seen the White ... more »»
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Monday, August 10, 2009
President Obama, Dick Durbin, the unions, and shills at MSNBC have taken to calling protesters who disagree with their health care agenda as shills for corporate interests or "the mob." Of course, this ... more »»
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Monday, July 20, 2009
In a New York Times piece, a bioethics professor defends rationing in health care, stating we have to do it. He uses a number of examples in which the cost of prolonging a persons life a few ... more »»
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Monday, June 29, 2009
I had a brief debate via Twitter (I guess it is impossible to have anything but a brief debate on Twitter) with a staffer for the Pennsylvania House Democrats over health care policy. At the source of contention ... more »»
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009
It has been noted many times that a tax on employer-provided health care benefits would likely be part of ObamaCare. This despite the fact that Obama's campaign criticized McCain for proposing something similar, ... more »»
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