FORA.tv Speaker - James Capretta

James C. Capretta is a Fellow in the Economics and Ethics Program of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He is also a contributing editor to EPPC's journal The New Atlantis, and the author of the health care policy blog Diagnosis.

From January 2001 to May 2004, Mr. Capretta served as the Bush Administration's top budget official for health care, Social Security and pensions, education, and labor policy. He was the lead official in the Office of Management and Budget for all aspects of Medicare and Medicaid reform policy development and implementation as well as for the development of the President's other important domestic policy initiatives in education and labor.