James C. Capretta

House Republican leaders have proposed a plan that differs in important ways from Obamacare. It will be up to the voters to decide if they like what they see.

Entitlement reform is not optional. If we wait until a crisis is upon us, the cuts will be blunt and disruptive.

A 962-page rule puts the federal government between doctors and patients.

Fixing the federal budget process is not a panacea. But a better process could make it easier for Congress and the president to agree on a budget framework.

Today’s budget process does not facilitate executive-legislative agreement, or help policymakers focus on long-term entitlement spending, which is the country’s primary fiscal challenge.

Obamacare is financially and politically unstable because very few middle-class families are signing up for coverage through the law’s exchanges.

Donald Trump says he will make health care great again. But his brief sketch of a plan would destabilize insurance markets and increase the ranks of the uninsured.

Going into the 2016 election cycle, Republicans had a golden opportunity. All that was needed was general consensus within the party on the important features of a governing agenda for the future, and a strong, reform-minded presidential nominee who could ride that agenda to victory in November.

The Supreme Court would do great harm to religious liberty if imposed a “solution” in the Little Sisters case that produces the outcome the administration has been seeking all along.

Trump’s pledge to reduce deficits by eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse is the most tired, canned answer in the book. It is what politicians say when they have no real ideas.

The IPAB is an unelected and unaccountable technocratic body trampling on the legislative prerogatives of Congress. It should be repealed as soon as possible.

The concept of the IPAB has taken a beating in Congress but the legal authorization for it remains on the federal books. Opponents must keep working until they have the opportunity to repeal it once and for all.