A Clash of Conscience

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.  [Full Story]

Obama's Final SOTU?

Posted: Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Governor Mitch Daniels' Republican rebuttal to the president's State of the Union address was a masterpiece: concise, direct, optimistic, and tough.  [Full Story]

Populist Rhetoric Does Not a Plan Make

Posted: Wednesday, January 25, 2012
The president's State of the Union message boiled down to this: if only the Republicans were willing to tax the rich, all would be well. Unfortunately for the president, there's absolutely no evidence to support this claim.  [Full Story]

Inside the Obamacare Spin Zone

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 thirty-five most definitely are not.  [Full Story]

The Medicare Debate
Is the program the solution, or the problem?
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 liberals really want is to drag the rest of American health care toward Medicare-style micromanagement by the government.  [Full Story]

Budgetary Savings from Delaying the PPACA

Posted: Friday, December 16, 2011
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Deficits, Debt, and Health Care: What Budgetary Pressures Could Mean for Provider Payments

Posted: Tuesday, December 13, 2011
On November 4, 2011, EPPC Fellow James C. Capretta delivered a talk at the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California at Irvine. Mr. Capretta's remarks focused on the fiscal challenges confronting the United States, the likely impact of the recently-enacted health care law, and the on-going debate over how best to reform American health care.  [Full Story]

PPACA: Lay of the Land, and What to Look for in the Future

Posted: Tuesday, December 13, 2011
On November 15, 2011, EPPC Fellow James C. Capretta delivered a talk at a meeting of the Association of Washington Business, in Seattle, WA. Mr. Capretta's remarks focused on the current state of implementation of the health care law enacted in 2010, and the likely impact of the law in the coming years on business, the broader economy, and the federal budget.   [Full Story]

The Case for Reforming Medicare with Premium Support

Posted: Thursday, December 8, 2011
Medicare is valuable to seniors because it provides secure access to medical care at a vulnerable stage of life. That wouldn't change with premium support. What would change is that Medicare would benefit from the competitive pressures that deliver continuous quality and productivity improvements in most sectors of the American economy.  [Full Story]

Super Committee Post-Mortem
Health care policy is central to partisan budget divide.
Posted: Monday, November 28, 2011
Although the super committee was delegated a lot of power, it never had much of a chance to succeed. That's because the divide between the two parties on health care is far too wide to overcome before the 2012 election.  [Full Story]