Category: James Capretta
View: Can Massachusetts’ experiment tell us what’s next?
After three years, no real progress has been made on rising costs. The program remains well over budget, with no end in sight.
The President’s Budget and Health Care Reform
Release of the president’s budget means the climb toward passage of health reform has gotten steeper.
View: An entitlement certain to grow in spite of ‘firewalls’
James Capretta, Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center One of the main arguments President Barack Obama and other Democrats have made on behalf of the health care bills that have passed the House and the Senate is that they would reduce the federal budget deficit in the coming decade and in the years following as [...]
Will the current health-reform bills control costs?
Would proposed reforms fundamentally change Medicare, much less the rest of American health care? No, they wouldn’t.
The President should oppose the House bill
If the president really meant what he has said about health care policy, his administration would be working to defeat the Pelosi bill, not supporting it.
The Public Option Contradiction
A public option would not bring real change in how healthcare is delivered.
Views: Where Things Stand
By James Capretta President Barack Obama’s op-ed in the Sunday New York Times is a revealing indicator of the state of the health care debate. Gone is the emphasis on “health care reform” and “bending the cost-curve “and “changing the delivery system.” As polls in July began showing public support dropping for sweeping health care [...]
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