Updated July 2020 James C. Capretta American Enterprise Institute 1789 Massachusetts Ave., N.W. Washington, DC 20036 [email protected] (202) 862-5846 (tel.) EDUCATION: M.A., Public Policy Studies, Duke University 1987 B.A., Government, University of Notre Dame 1985 EMPLOYMENT: Resident Fellow and Milton Friedman Chair, American Enterprise Institute 2016 to Present Visiting Fellow 2012 to 2016 CONSULTING: Senior Adviser, Bipartisan Policy Center 2017 to Present MEDIA: Contributor, RealClearPolicy 2017 to Present Columnist, State of Reform 2019 to Present BOARDS: National Institute for Health Care Management, Advisory Board 2011 to Present Health Affairs, Editorial Board 2012 to Present Aging with Dignity, Board of Directors 2017 to Present Free the Facts, Policy Advisory Board 2019 to Present PREVIOUS GOVERNMENT SERVICE: Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President Associate Director (Health, Income Security, Labor, Education) 2001 to 2004 U.S. Senate Budget Committee, Senior Policy Analyst 1990 to 1995 1995 to 2001 U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means 1995 Subcommittee on Health, Professional Staff Member Office of Management and Budget, Budget Examiner 1987 to 1990 PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS: Ethics and Public Policy Center 1 Senior Fellow 2013 to 2016 Fellow 2006 to 2013 Mercatus Center, George Mason University, Affiliated Scholar 2014 to 2016 The Brookings Institution, Visiting Fellow 2005 to 2006 OTHER PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT: Civic Enterprises, LLC (consulting) 2006 to 2016 Wexler and Walker Public Policy Associates 2004 to 2006 Catholic Health Association 1995 SELECTED BOOK CHAPTERS AND REPORTS: “The Road Not Taken,” with Joseph Antos, in The Trillion Dollar Revolution, Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Abby R. Gluck eds., Public Affairs Books, March 2020 (pdf) (book) “Medicaid,” in A Safety Net That Works, Robert Doar ed., American Enterprise Institute, February 2017 (link) (full book) “Increasing the Effectiveness and Sustainability of the Nation’s Entitlement Programs,” with Andrew Biggs, Robert Doar, Ron Haskins, and Yuval Levin, American Enterprise Institute, June 2016 (pdf) “Improving Health and Health Care: An Agenda for Reform,” with Joseph Antos, Lanhee J. Chen, Scott Gottlieb, Yuval Levin, Thomas P. Miller, Ramesh Ponnuru, Avik Roy, Gail Wilensky, and David Wilson, American Enterprise Institute, December 2015 (pdf) “Reforming Medicaid,” in The Economics of Medicaid, Jason Fichtner (ed.), Mercatus Center at George Mason University, April 2014 (pdf) (full book) CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY AND LETTERS: “Cost-Reducing Health Policies: A Response to Chairman Alexander and the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions,” with Henry Aaron, Joseph Antos, Loren Adler, Matthew Fiedler, Paul Ginsburg, Benedic Ippolito, and Alice Rivlin, March 1, 2019 (pdf) “The Budget Resolution -- Content, Timeliness, and Enforcement,” Joint Select Committee on Budget and Appropriations Process Reform, May 24, 2018 (written testimony) (hearing details) (full hearing video) “Proposals to Reform the President’s Budget and Congressional Budget Process,” Senate Budget Committee, April 27, 2016 (written testimony) (hearing details) (full hearing video) “The Original Understanding of the Role of Congress and How Far We Have Drifted From It,” House Judiciary Committee Executive Overreach Task Force, March 1, 2016 (written 2 testimony) (hearing details) (full hearing video) “The Obama Administration’s Delay of the Employer Mandate,” House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, July 10, 2013 (written testimony) (hearing details) (full hearing video) “Saving Seniors and Our Most Vulnerable Citizens from an Entitlement Crisis,” House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, March 18, 2013 (written testimony) (video) “The Status of the Medicare Advantage Program,” House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, September 21, 2012 “Identifying Opportunities for Health Delivery System Reform: Lessons from the Front Line,” Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, May 16, 2012 (video) “Putting Health Care Spending on a Sustainable Path,” Senate Budget Committee, February 29, 2012 (video) “The Medicare Trigger,” Subcommittee on Health Care, District of Columbia, and National Archives, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, July 12, 2011 (video) “Fulfilling the Mission of Health and Retirement Security,” House Budget Committee, March 17, 2011 (video) “The Fiscal Consequences of the New Health Care Law,” House Budget Committee, January 26, 2011 (video) “Perspectives on Long-Term Deficits,” House Budget Committee, January 21, 2010 (video) SELECTED PAPERS: “COVID-19 and the Medicare Trust Funds,” with Joseph Antos, Economic Perspectives, American Enterprise Institute, July 2020 (pdf) “Fiscal Policy and the Major Entitlements: An Introduction,” Economic Perspectives, American Enterprise Institute, June 2020 (pdf) “Policies Affecting the Number of Physicians in the U.S. and a Framework for Reform,” Economic Perspectives, American Enterprise Institute, March 2020 (pdf), and “Promoting a More Adaptable Physician Pipeline,” Regulatory Transparency Project, March 2020 (pdf) “Bipartisan Rx for America’s Health Care,” with Tom Daschle, Bill Frist, Andy Slavitt, Gail Wilensky, Sheila Burke, Chris Jennings, Cindy Mann, and Avik Roy, Bipartisan Policy Center, February 2020 (pdf) “Toward Meaningful Price Transparency in Health Care,” Economic Perspectives, American Enterprise Institute, June 2019 (pdf) “A Balanced Plan for Fiscal Stability and Economic Growth,” with Joseph Antos, Andrew Biggs, Alex Brill, and Alan Viard, Peterson Foundation Solutions Initiative, June 2019 (pdf) “Reforming Medicare Payments for Part B Drugs,” with Joseph Antos, Economic Perspectives, 3 American Enterprise Institute, June 2019 (pdf) “Providing High-Quality, Cost-Effective Health Coverage to Retired Federal Employees Age 65 and Older,” with Joseph Antos and Walton J. Francis, Economic Perspectives, American Enterprise Institute, January 2019 (pdf) “Prescription Drug Pricing: An Overview of the Legal, Regulatory, and Market Environment,” with Joseph Antos, Economic Perspectives, American Enterprise Institute, July 2018 (pdf) “Automatic Adjustments Within Entitlement Programs: A Look at the Swedish Pension Reform Model,” Economic Perspectives, American Enterprise Institute, March 2018 (pdf) “Rethinking Medicare,” National Affairs, March 2018 (link) (pdf) “The Congressional Budget Process: A Brief Primer,” Economic Perspectives, American Enterprise Institute, February 2018 (pdf) “Bringing Market Discipline to Health Care Is Complex, Difficult, and Necessary,” with Joseph R. Antos, Ph.D., Economic Perspectives, American Enterprise Institute, September 2017 (pdf) “An Examination of Medicare’s Current Design and an Alternative,” Mercatus Center, George Mason University, June 2017 (pdf) “The On-Demand Economy and Worker Benefits and Protections,” Future of Work Initiative, Aspen Institute, September 2016 (pdf) “Reforming the Budget Process,” National Affairs, Fall 2014 (link) “Global Aging and the Sustainability of Public Pension Systems: An Assessment of Reform Efforts in Twelve Developed Countries,” Global Aging Initiative, Center for Strategic and International Studies, January 2007 (link) “Building Automatic Solvency Into U.S. Social Security: Insights from Sweden and Germany,” The Brookings Institution, Policy Brief #151, March 2006 (pdf) SELECTED SHORT ARTICLES AND OPINION: The Wall Street Journal: “Drug Rebates Aren’t Kickbacks: A rule designed to save patients money would end up having the opposite effect,” with Joseph Antos, The Wall Street Journal, September 17, 2018 (link) “An ObamaCare Tax Worth Keeping: The levy on ‘Cadillac’ plans will counter perverse tax incentives,” The Wall Street Journal, July 20, 2018 (link) “ObamaCare’s Failed Cost Controls: Medical spending keeps rising, outpacing both general inflation and population growth,” with Joseph R. Antos, The Wall Street Journal, December 21, 2017 (link) 4 “How the GOP Could Nudge the Uninsured Toward Coverage: Automatically enroll many Americans in no-premium, high-deductible policies unless they opt out,” with Lanhee J. Chen, The Wall Street Journal, April 19, 2017 (link) “The Four Legs of a New Health-Care System: The Great Recession enabled ObamaCare. Now the law’s failure makes reform possible,” with Scott Gottlieb, The Wall Street Journal, December 1, 2016 (link) “Macra: The Quiet Health-Care Takeover; A 962-page rule puts the federal government between doctors and patients,” with Lanhee J. Chen, The Wall Street Journal, June 1, 2016 (link) “The Other Stealthy ObamaCare Menace: The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation exists to impose price controls and limit payments to providers,” with Lanhee J. Chen, The Wall Street Journal, April 24, 2014 (link) “Exposing the Medicare Double Count,” with Charles Blahous, The Wall Street Journal, May 2, 2012 (link) “Health Care Repeal Won’t Add to the Deficit,” with Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Joseph Antos, The Wall Street Journal (Online Extra), January 18, 2011 (link) The New York Times: “The Public Option Is Not an Easy Fix for Health Care,” with Joseph Antos, The New York Times, February 25, 2020 (link) “The Health Reforms the G.O.P. Should Embrace (but Probably Won’t),” with Joseph Antos, The New York Times, April 4, 2019 (link) “Yes, There’s Hope for Health Care Reform: A Bipartisan Consensus Is Focused on Fixing the Systems’ Chronic Waste and Inefficiency,” with Lanhee J. Chen, The New York Times, August 31, 2018 (link) “Republicans Need