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<title><![CDATA[James Capretta - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/17810.xml</link><description><![CDATA[James Capretta]]></description><category domain="17810">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Increasing Instability of Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/434435/obamacare-premiums-losses-unacceptable</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Capretta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[United Healthcare&rsquo;s announcement that it is pulling out of most of the exchanges established by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) &mdash; a.k.a. Obamacare &mdash; is one of many indications of the law&rsquo;s continuing instability.United made this decision for obvious reasons: It was...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Instead of ObamaCare: Giving Power to the People]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/search?q=This+Year%E2%80%99s+Iowa+Caucuses+Could+Be+the+Wildest+Yet+-+WSJ&amp;oq=This+Year%E2%80%99s+Iowa+Caucuses+Could+Be+the+Wildest+Yet+-+WSJ&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57.1879j0j9&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;es_sm=122&amp;ie=UTF-8#q=Instead+of+ObamaCare:</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Capretta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While America&rsquo;s health-care system has long needed reform, President Obamaunfortunately made many parts of it worse. His Affordable Care Act is based on more federal spending, regulation and coercion&mdash;and Americans are now experiencing the many unhappy consequences. These...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Coming Process of Candidate Elimination]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/09/29/the_coming_process_of_candidate_elimination_128233.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Capretta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker dropped out of the race for the GOP nomination for president last week, joining former Texas Gov. Rick Perry as the early casualties of the 2016 cycle. Their departures leave 15 remaining Republican candidates for president, so the process of &ldquo;thinning...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Note to GOP: Use Reconciliation]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/418236/remember-reconciliation-gop-can-move-agenda-without-democratic-support-lanhee-j-chen</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Capretta</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[On Obamacare, Be Prepared]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/be-prepared_867731.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Capretta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Few people expect much to happen on health care in the 114th Congress, certainly not President Obama. He plans to continue bending and twisting his interpretation of Obamacare&rsquo;s many complex provisions as necessary to keep it afloat and to avoid dealing at all with opposition to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Replace Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/393678/how-replace-obamacare-james-c-capretta</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Capretta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the 2014 midterm elections, opposition to the Affordable Care Act &mdash; i.e., Obamacare &mdash; was a clear political winner. That&rsquo;s obvious from the election results themselves but also from polling that consistently finds that far more of the electorate disapproves of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Path to Replacing Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/getting-there_804816.html#</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Capretta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Obamacare&#194;&#151;or at least the version of it that the president and his advisers currently think they can get away with putting into place&#194;&#151;has been upending arrangements and reshuffling the deck in the health system since the beginning of the year. That&#194;&#146;s when the new insurance rules,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Health Care Law: Still Falling Short]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/374728/aca-still-falling-short-james-c-capretta</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Capretta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Obamacare open-enrollment season (supposedly) closed yesterday, so it is good time to step back and assess where things stand with the law and its first-year implementation.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obamacare Falling Apart Before Our Eyes]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obamacare-falling-apart-our-eyes_771566.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Capretta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The wrecking ball swung again toward the crumbling Obamacare edifice yesterday. Ironically, it continues to be the Obama administration that is operating the heavy machinery.Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced, in the form of a letter to Democratic senators,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obamacare Mugged by Reality]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/obamacare-s-mugged-reality-moment_764689.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Capretta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As  metaphors go, &ldquo;train wreck&rdquo; turned out to be pretty apt. That&rsquo;s how retiring Democratic senator Max Baucus described his expectations for the implementation of Obamacare at a hearing last April. If anything, he could be accused of soft pedaling the fiasco that has...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Employer Mandate's Significance]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/significance-missing-employer-mandate_742327.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Capretta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After getting over the shock of the Obama administration&#194;&#146;s unilateral decision to delay the employer mandate for a year, supporters of the law have taken to downplaying the significance of the step. Jonathan Chait and Ezra Klein, among others, have said it is just not that big of a deal...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[To Save Medicare, Change the Model]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/03/11/medicare-paul-ryan-ethics-and-public-policy-center/1980635/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Capretta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Medicare is not sustainable in its current form. It costs too much even as the quality of care it provides falls well short of what seniors deserve. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that Medicare's costs will reach $1.09 trillion in 2023, up from $551 billion in 2012.Without...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Project to Replace ObamaCare Starts Now]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/337175/project-replace-obamacare-begins-now-james-c-capretta#</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Capretta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Get FREE NRO NewslettersLog In  &#124;  RegisterFollow UsDecember 31 Issue Subscribe to NR Renew December 31 Issue  &#124;  Subscribe  &#124;  RenewThe CornerThe one and only.The Project to Replace Obamacare Begins NowAs 2013 begins, encouraging a discussion about how to replace the president&#8217;s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[For Starters, Put ObamaCare on Table]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/334104/how-approach-fiscal-cliff-james-c-capretta</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Capretta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Negotiations between congressional Republicans and the White House will intensify this week as the deadline for steering clear of the year-end &ldquo;fiscal cliff&rdquo; approaches. Like the 2011 showdown over the debt limit, these talks will be a high-stakes affair for both parties,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What's Next for Health Care?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/06/scotus-post-mortem-whats-next/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Capretta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Today's Supreme Court decision is complex and will likely take weeks to fully digest in terms of what it means for the future of ObamaCare.But a few things are becoming clear. For starters, the Court found that at least one part of ObamaCare is indeed unconstitutional. Specifically, the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama' s Incoherent Economic Philosophy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/296709</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Capretta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, President Obama was a traditional Keynesian. When he came into office, he favored a massive injection of new government spending into the economy in the name of &ldquo;stimulus&rdquo; &mdash; counter-cyclical federal activity aimed at offsetting depressed consumer...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[ObamaCare's Dubious Assumptions]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/class-dismissed_598450.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Capretta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the debate on Obamacare reached a crescendo in late 2009 and 2010, no question was more hotly contested than whether the plan would narrow or widen future federal budget deficits. This issue was particularly sensitive among the handful of wavering Democrats from conservative-leaning...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[ObamaCare Repeal Now Clearer Than Ever]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/280274/reconciliation-option-james-c-capretta</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Capretta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At last Tuesday&#194;&#146;s debate among the Republican presidential candidates, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and former U.S. senator Rick Santorum both mentioned that repeal of Obamacare could be accomplished through the special budgetary procedure known as &#194;&#147;reconciliation&#194;&#148; (see...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[2012 Will Decide Fate of ObamaCare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/don-t-forget-obamacare_593644.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Capretta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Obamacare's individual mandate--requiring that all Americans purchase government-approved health insurance beginning in 2014"&rdquo;has always been the law's most vulnerable provision. It is incredibly unpopular, and not just among conservatives. Polls consistently show that a large...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Downgrade: A Rebuke Obama Richly Deserved]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/274142/downgrade-rebuke-obama-richly-deserved-james-c-capretta#</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Capretta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let&rsquo;s start by partially agreeing with Paul Krugman&rsquo;s weekend column in the New York Times, in which he correctly calls out Standard and Poor&rsquo;s for displaying an unusual degree of chutzpah in downgrading the creditworthiness of the United States government. After all,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Clear Obama Has Been the Real Roadblock]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/272693/getting-yes-james-c-capretta</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Capretta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With the collapse of the Boehner-Obama talks, it looks as if something closer to "regular order" in the legislative branch will probably be needed to produce the final deal to raise the debt limit. The House is moving toward taking up a plan drafted by the speaker and his lieutenants,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gang of Six Disaster: The Worst Plan So Far]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/272311/gang-six-disaster-worst-plan-so-far-james-c-capretta</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Capretta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Confusion among congressional Republicans about their objectives in the debt-limit endgame has increased the possibility that they will stumble into a policy and political disaster over the next two weeks.Only ten days ago, Republicans appeared to regain their footing when House Speaker...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Plainly Unserious Budget]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/259947/even-president-seems-oppose-his-budget-james-c-capretta</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Capretta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's  not unusual for a budget submission from a president to be declared "dead on arrival," especially by members of the opposition party in  Congress. But it is unusual for the president to join his opponents in  proclaiming the early demise of his own, months-long handiwork to ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ending Obama's Big Government Binge]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/page/priorities-for-a-new-congress-preview</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Capretta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The struggle to place meaningful limits on government - on its reach into economic life, its influence over how we manage our private affairs, and especially its staggering expense - has been among the most important animating principles of the Republican Party for the past half-century....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Limited Government in the 21st Century]]></title>
							<link>http://www.economics21.org/commentary/limited-government-21st-century</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Capretta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[David Brooks' critique of a Wall Street Journal opinion piece by Arthur Brooks and Congressman Paul Ryan served its intended purpose. It's gotten the right people talking, and thinking, and that's as it should be when those currently out of power have a very real shot at participating in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Spending of Epic Proportions]]></title>
							<link>http://www.economics21.org/commentary/mid-year-update</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Capretta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Peter Orszag, the president's outgoing Director of the Office of Management and Budget, released the annual mid-year update to the administration's budget projections at 3 pm last Friday afternoon in a conference call with reporters. That was a dead giveaway that the administration was...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Obama's Health Care Law is So Polarizing]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/critical-condition/230836/cowardice-his-convictions/james-c-capretta</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Capretta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The reason the health-care debate has been so polarizing is that there is a deep and fundamental divide over what should be done to fix the problems in American health care, especially with regard to rapidly rising costs.On one side of the debate are those who advocate a decentralized,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democratic Scheming Has Created a Tangled Web]]></title>
							<link>http://healthcare.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ODhhZTVhYWEyYWNiODk0ZTE0MmM0ZWI2NTFiZjM2MTE=</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Capretta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Friday, March 12, 2010The Democrats' Tangled Web   [James C. Capretta]In 2009, Democrats chose to proceed with a health-care bill under the regular order &mdash; that is, they sought to pass the legislation under normal House and Senate rules. They did not put together a budget...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Government 'Engineering' is Wrong Approach]]></title>
							<link>http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=ZjY1YjIyY2I0MGFlZDM3NjY3ZTFiYWQyYzZmNWNlZmI</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Capretta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE	        	www.nationalreview.com	         	PRINT			James C. Capretta			Author Archive	   &#124;   			E-mail		   &#124;   		LatestA Roadmap to Better Health CareGovernment &#194;&#147;engineering&#194;&#148; is no match for a functioning marketplace.  It&#194;&#146;s not often that a single member of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Boxed in by Misguided Policies]]></title>
							<link>http://article.nationalreview.com/424653/obamas-very-weak-hand/james-c-capretta</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Capretta</author>
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