James C. Capretta, Author at Ethics & Public Policy Center

James C. Capretta

Jim Capretta is a former senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

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