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2012
May
Catholic Social Teaching and the Ryan Budget
By James C. Capretta, Thomas V. Berg
Posted: Friday, May 11, 2012
Catholic social teaching doesn't provide cookie-cutter solutions. Applying the principles of that teaching to the social reality of the day is the proper role of Catholic laymen, as exemplified
Obamacare Hurts Seniors
By James C. Capretta
Posted: Thursday, May 10, 2012
The Fidelity study omits Obamacare's deep cuts in payments to Medicare Advantage plans. Those cuts will drive costs up for millions of seniors and dwarf the supposed savings from other Obamacare
The 2009-2010 Slowdown in Health Spending
By James C. Capretta
Posted: Wednesday, May 2, 2012
It would be foolish to assume from two years of experience that the cost dragon has been slain.
Exposing the Medicare Double Count
By James C. Capretta, Charles Blahous
Posted: Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Obamacare taps Medicare to pay for both the law's new entitlement spending and future Medicare benefits. Federal deficits and debt will thus be hundreds of billions of dollars higher in the next
April
The Medicare Trustees' Report and the $8.1 Trillion Double Count
By James C. Capretta
Posted: Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Obamacare double-counted $8.1 trillion worth of Medicare cuts to create the largest entitlement expansion in a generation. Unless it is repealed, the fiscal consequences will be disastrous.
The President’s Incoherent Economic ‘Philosophy’
By James C. Capretta
Posted: Monday, April 23, 2012
The president argues that the government spending he has in mind is essential to economic growth, despite all evidence to the contrary.
CBO Confirms It: ObamaCare Creates an Unstable Disequilibrium in Insurance Subsidies
By James C. Capretta
Posted: Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Obamacare will create a huge incentive to drive low-wage workers out of employer-based insurance and into state exchanges.
Assessing Obama's Assault on Religious Liberty
By James C. Capretta, Rev. Thomas V. Berg
Posted: Wednesday, April 18, 2012
The administration's supposed "accommodation" for Catholic and other employers is an empty gesture and changes none of the reasons that the HHS mandate must be rescinded.
Redeeming Economics: How Federal Budgets Affect the American Family
By John D. Mueller
Posted: Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Without reforms of the magnitude Congressman Ryan proposes, there will be no way to prevent a sharp decline in the U.S. birth rate, and thus a decline in the relative size of the U.S. population and
Obamacare and the Deficit
By Yuval Levin
Posted: Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Obamacare's advocates insist it will reduce the deficit, but a new study decisively refutes that claim and shows yet again why Obamacare must be repealed.
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March
GOP Budget Will Tackle Economic Challenges
By James C. Capretta
Posted: Friday, March 23, 2012
The American people have before them two clear and very different approaches for how to address the nation's fundamental economic challenges. The president's plan preserve the spending status
A Federal-State Framework for Market-Based Reform
By James C. Capretta
Posted: Friday, March 16, 2012
A federal-state framework for market-based reform of health care will do far more to control costs, expand coverage, and improve quality than the top-down, government-centric approach of Obamacare.
The Latest Mandate Announcement: 'We Need a Process to Get Past November!'
By James C. Capretta
Posted: Friday, March 16, 2012
The Obama administration's latest pronouncement on the HHS mandate is a thinly veiled attempt to punt the entire issue into 2013, thus allowing the president to continue his doublespeak on the
Putting Health Care Spending on a Sustainable Path
Testimony Presented to the Senate Budget Committee
By James C. Capretta
Posted: Monday, March 5, 2012
Putting health care spending on a sustainable path will require substituting a functioning and effective marketplace for the failed model of government micromanagement.
February
The Top Five Flawed Arguments Against Premium Support
By James C. Capretta
Posted: Tuesday, February 21, 2012
The arguments against premium support are weak and flawed. Thirty years of experience show that the government can't make Medicare more efficient, but consumer choice can.
The President's Plan: Higher Taxes, Deep Defense Cuts, and the Entitlement Status Quo
By James C. Capretta
Posted: Tuesday, February 14, 2012
When the unprecedented tax hikes and the unrealistic defense cuts are set aside, the deficit in President Obama's budget would still reach 7.1 percent of GDP in 2022, which is well above the
January
A Clash of Conscience
By James C. Capretta
Posted: Monday, January 30, 2012
With Obamacare, it was only a matter of time before the federal government tried to use its new powers to coerce Catholics into submitting to a secularist humanist worldview.
Inside the Obamacare Spin Zone
By James C. Capretta
Posted: Tuesday, January 24, 2012
The White House says twenty-eight states are "on their way" to implementing Obamacare. But a fairer assessment is that fifteen states are "on their way" while the other
Were John Locke and the Founders "Lockeans"—or Scholastics?
By John D. Mueller
Posted: Wednesday, January 11, 2012
The ways in which James Madison and Alexander Hamilton developed the scholastic economics tradition handed on through the 'laic scholastic' John Locke can illuminate today's partisan
The Medicare Debate
Is the program the solution, or the problem?
By James C. Capretta
Posted: Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Liberal commentators have denounced the Wyden-Ryan for Medicare reform because it would undo Medicare's uber-regulatory model. Despite pretending to be open to competition in health care, what
Why ObamaCare Is Wrong for America

In Why ObamaCare Is Wrong for America (HarperCollins), EPPC Fellow James Capretta and his co-authors show how disastrous ObamaCare will be for the health care of Americans, for the economy, and for long-term fiscal sanity. They also explain how to do health-care reform the right way. 


Redeeming Economics: Rediscovering the Missing Element

The most important element of economic theory has been ignored for more than two centuries, and its rediscovery has started a revolution the likes of which occurred just three times in eight centuries. In Redeeming Economics: Rediscovering the Missing Element, John D. Mueller, EPPC's Lehrman Institute Fellow in Economics, shows how reapplying the economic thought of Aristotle, Augustine, and Aquinas makes economics whole again. 


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