On April 26, 2010 EPPC Fellow James C. Capretta participated in a public forum entitled, "What Now? The Future of Healthcare Policy and Its Long-Term Impact on the Budget." The event was moderated by EPPC Senior Fellow Rick Santorum and focused on the risks associated with passage of another large federal entitlement program just as the U.S. government has entered a period of unprecedented borrowing and economic risk. Mr. Carpetta focused his remarks on the likelihood that many more millions of people would become eligible for federal entitlement assistance that predicted in official cost projections for the new health law. An audio recording of the event is available in two parts, below.

 PPAF April 2010 Event on Health Care Part 1
 PPAF April 2010 Event on Health Care Part 2

James C. Capretta is a Fellow in the Economics and Ethics Program at the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC). He was an Associate Director at the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) from 2001 to 2004, where he was the top budget official for health-care, Social Security, education, and welfare programs. In addition to his work as a researcher and commentator on public policy issues, Mr. Capretta is also a health policy and research consultant with Civic Enterprises, LLC and an Adjunct Fellow with the Global Aging Initiative of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and with Hudson Institute. He has an MA in Public Policy Studies from Duke University, and he graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1985 with a BA in Government.

Douglas J. Holtz-Eakin is the recipient of the 2006 Morris and Edna Zale Award for Outstanding Achievement in Policy Research and Public Service. He was the sixth Director of the Congressional Budget Office from 2003-2005 and also served for 18 months as Chief Economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisors under President George W. Bush and for two years as Senior Staff Economist for President George H. W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisors. He has also been a Senior Fellow at the Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics, the Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geo-economic Studies, and the Paul A. Volcker Chair in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the president of the American Action Forum think tank, president of DHE Consulting, LLC, and has held academic appointments at Columbia and Princeton.