
James C. Capretta
Jim Capretta is a former senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
PUBLICATIONS
The House Republicans’ Health Plan
Published in Health Affairs Blog on June 22, 2016
Entitlement Reform Remains an Absolute Necessity
Published in RealClearPolicy on June 14, 2016
Macra: The Quiet Health-Care Takeover
Published in Wall Street Journal on June 1, 2016
The Joint Budget Resolution: A More Collaborative Budget Process
Published in Mercatus Research on May 24, 2016
Proposals to Reform the President’s Budget and the Congressional Budget Process
Published in Senate Budget Committee on April 27, 2016
The Increasing Instability of Obamacare
Published in National Review Online on April 22, 2016
Donald Trump’s Empty Health Care Promises
Published in RealClearHealth on April 21, 2016
A Party Is Only as Good as Its Principles
Published in National Review Online on April 13, 2016
Beware of a Supreme Court ‘Solution’ for the Little Sisters
Published in National Review Online on April 6, 2016
The Trump Plan: Big Tax Hikes or Big Deficits
Published in National Review Online on March 25, 2016
The Independent Payment Advisory Board
Published in Mercatus on Policy on March 8, 2016
Don’t Forget About the IPAB
Published in RealClearHealth on March 8, 2016
The Original Understanding of the Role of Congress and How Far We’ve Drifted From It
Published in House Judiciary Committee on March 1, 2016
No, Rubio’s Plan Does Not Include an Individual Mandate
Published in National Review Online on March 1, 2016
Debate Debrief: GOP Final Five Hit the Lone Star State
Published in AEIdeas on February 26, 2016
What’s Holding Back the Supply of Innovative, Consumer-Friendly Medical Services?
Published in Mercatus Center on February 23, 2016
Confusion in the Anti-Establishment Ranks
Published in National Review Online on February 24, 2016
An Agenda to Court Trump Supporters
Published in RealClearPolicy on February 23, 2016
President Obama’s Budgetary Deceptions
Published in National Review Online on February 9, 2016
The ACA and Its Employment Effects
Published in Health Affairs Blog on February 3, 2016
Debate Debrief
Published in AEIdeas on January 29, 2016
President Obama’s Legacy of Red Ink
Published in RealClearPolicy on January 25, 2016
Instead of ObamaCare: Giving Health-Care Power to the People
Published in Wall Street Journal on January 24, 2016
The Sanders Repeal-and-Replace Plan
Published in National Review Online on January 20, 2016
The Fallout From the Budget Deals
Published in RealClearPolicy on January 11, 2016
Replacing the Affordable Care Act and Other Suggested Reforms
Published in The JAMA Forum on December 21, 2015
Health Reform Ideas You Haven’t Heard Before
Published in RealClearPolicy on December 21, 2015
Improving Health and Health Care: An Agenda for Reform (Full Report)
Published in AEI: Improving Health and Health Care on December 9, 2015
Improving Health and Health Care: An Agenda for Reform
Published in Health Affairs on December 9, 2015
A Clear Path for Repealing and Replacing Obamacare Is Coming into View
Published in National Review Online on December 7, 2015
An ACA Provision You’ve Never Heard Of Could End Up Being Very Costly
Published in RealClearHealth on November 23, 2015
What the Republican Debates Should Be About
Published in National Review Online on November 5, 2015
Exploring Superior Approaches to the Affordable Care Act
Published in Economics21.org on November 2, 2015
Rubio, Cruz, and Lee Are Wrong to Oppose the House Reconciliation Bill
Published in National Review Online on October 28, 2015
The ACA’s ‘Indexing’ Charade
Published in RealClearPolicy on October 28, 2015
Indexing in the Affordable Care Act: The Impact on the Federal Budget
Published in Mercatus Center - George Mason University on October 27, 2015
Jeb Bush Offers a Smart, Conservative Obamacare Alternative
Published in National Review Online on October 13, 2015
On Taxes, Trump is No Reagan
Published in National Review Online on October 6, 2015
The Hillarycare Sequel to Obamacare
Published in National Review Online on September 30, 2015
The Coming Process of Candidate Elimination
Published in RealClearPolitics on September 29, 2015
Don’t Kill the Cadillac Tax (Yet)
Published in National Review Online on September 21, 2015
Health Care Reform From the Bottom Up
Published in RealClearPolicy on September 3, 2015
Nebraska’s Department of Health and Human Services and Medicaid Reform
Published in Platte Institute for Economic Research on August 20, 2015
Ezekiel Emanuel’s Confused Health-Care Argument
Published in National Review Online on September 3, 2015
Three Actual — and Actually Good — Plans to Replace Obamacare
Published in National Review Online on August 19, 2015
What the GOP Candidates Should Say on Health Care
Published in National Review Online on August 13, 2015
Medicare at 50
Published in National Review Online on July 28, 2015
The Debt Is Still a Major Threat
Published in Real Clear Policy on June 30, 2015
Who Will Be the Candidate with a Plan?
Published in National Review Online on June 19, 2015
A Market-Based Contingency Plan for King v. Burwell
Published in Health Affairs on June 15, 2015
What Is the Huckabee Plan for Social Security?
Published in National Review Online on May 26, 2015
A Real Budget for the Federal Government
Published in RealClearPolicy on May 14, 2015
Remember ‘Reconciliation’? The GOP Can Move an Agenda without Democratic Support
Published in National Review Online on May 12, 2015
The Fix to the ‘Doc Fix’ Is No Fix at All
Published in National Review Online on April 14, 2015
The Budget Act at Forty: Time for Budget Process Reform
Published in Mercatus Research on March 25, 2015
Unpacking The Burr-Hatch-Upton Plan
Published in Health Affairs on March 24, 2015
An Unappealing ‘Doc Fix’
Published in National Review Online on March 25, 2015
The GOP Must Use the Reconciliation Option Prudently
Published in National Review Online on March 19, 2015
Be Prepared
Published in The Weekly Standard - March 9, 2015 issue on March 5, 2015
Why Not Cut the Payroll Tax?
Published in National Review Online on February 13, 2015
More Fiscal Folly in the White House
Published in National Review Online on February 4, 2015
How Government-Run Health Care Happens
Published in National Review Online on January 30, 2015
The Reform Tightrope
Published in National Review Online on January 16, 2015
Debating Economics
Published in National Review Online on January 6, 2015
A Misleading Debate on Health-Care Costs
Published in National Review Online on December 11, 2014
How to Replace Obamacare
Published in National Review Online on December 1, 2014
Lessons from the 1995 Strategy
Published in The Weekly Standard on November 25, 2014
Health Care Policy After The Mid-Term Elections
Published in Health Affairs Blog on November 7, 2014
An Emerging Consensus: Medicare Advantage Is Working And Can Deliver Meaningful Reform
Published in Health Affairs Blog on November 6, 2014
Reestimating Obamacare
Published in National Review Online
4 Rules for Replacing Obamacare
Published in POLITICO on October 16, 2014
The Obama Rosy Scenario
Published in National Review Online on October 16, 2014
Reforming the Budget Process
Published in National Affairs on Fall 2014
Replacing Obamacare Saves a Lot of Money
Published in National Review Online on September 19, 2014
Getting There
Published in The Weekly Standard on September 18, 2014
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