James C. Capretta

James C. Capretta is a New Atlantis contributing editor. He is also a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he holds the Milton Friedman Chair.

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 (OMB) 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.

After leaving government, Mr. Capretta was from June 2004 to August 2006 a Managing Director of Wexler and Walker Public Policy Associates, where he performed a wide range of consulting and advocacy services for clients.

From 2006 until 2016, he was a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. During this period, from 2008 to 2014, he was the author of the health care policy blog Diagnosis.