Nathan Benefield
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.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008Government Health Care KillsPennsylvania Governor's demagoguery masks problems with government health coverage By Nathan BenefieldFiled As: Health CarePennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell is calling on the Pennsylvania Senate leadership to break their pledge not to hold a lame duck session. Among Rendell's rhetorical arguments is ... more »»
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008The Case for Corporate Tax CutsBy Nathan BenefieldFiled As: Budget and TaxThe NCPA has a short primer on why the US (and Pennsylvania) should cut corporate tax rates.
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Thursday, October 16, 2008Health Care at a CrossroadsBy Nathan BenefieldFiled As: Health CareBob Moffit of Heritage writes that we are at a crossroads in health care in term of the difference between McCain and Obama's proposals. The Commonwealth Foundation has said much the same thing about the more »»
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Friday, October 3, 2008New Report Compares US and Canadian Health CareBy Nathan BenefieldFiled As: Health CareI doubt this will surprise regular readers of this blog, but Canada's single payer health system isn't all that Michael Moore makes it out to be. From a new report of the Fraser Institute.
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Thursday, October 2, 2008Matthews in WSJ on Interstate Health InsuranceBy Nathan BenefieldFiled As: Health CareWriting in the Wall Street Journal, Merrill Matthews says that John McCain's plan to allow individuals and small businesses to buy insurance across state lines - a policy championed in Congress by John Shadegg ... more »»
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Thursday, October 2, 2008Rendell continues push for "Cover All Pennsylvanians"By Nathan BenefieldFiled As: Health CarePennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell has revised his proposal to increase government spending and eligibility for health insurance yet again. The latest edition has lowered the cost of the ... more »»
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008Bailing out MassachusettsBy Nathan BenefieldFiled As: Health CareThe Foundry Blog of the Heritage Foundation has discovered that the federal government will "bail out" Massachusetts troubled health care plan (e.g. RomneyCare) with a more »»
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008PA Senate passes "slacker mandate"By Nathan BenefieldFiled As: Health CareThe Pennsylvania Senate today passed by a 50-0 vote a "slacker mandate," (SB 1453) requiring insurance companies to cover single, childless children of policy ... more »»
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Friday, September 5, 2008McCain and Obama on Health CareBy Nathan BenefieldFiled As: Health CareWhile health care policy won't getthe level ofmedia coverage as Sarah Palin's teenage daughter or Barack Obama's crazy pastor, some people might be interested in looking at the candidates proposals on that. The NCPA has put together a brief analysis of both the McCain plan and the Obama ... more »»
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Monday, August 4, 2008Fixing Medicaid in PABy Nathan BenefieldFiled As: Health CareThe Commonwealth Foundation released a report by Michael Bond on reforming Medicaid in the Keystone state in May (I am tardy in blogging on the subject). Bond ... more »»
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