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But PolitiFact never bothered to interview a right-of-center Medicare expert, such as Jim Capretta.
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James Capretta, a top budget official in the George W. Bush administration, is skeptical.
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Capretta says that the legislation has big downsides for Democrats, including the sharp cuts to Medicare Advantage.
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Stuart Rothenberg, editor of the The Rothenberg Political Report, a nonpartisan newsletter, has some sympathy for Capretta's argument.
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Capretta cites some interesting data to rebut the charge that government-run Medicare is more efficient than private plans.
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Mr. Capretta, a former associate director at the White House Office of Management and Budget, is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
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Mr. JAMES CAPRETTA (Former Budget Official, Bush Administration): The general reaction usually is not the program dies, but it finds a way to get a little bit better.
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Robert Book, along with former White House budget official James Capretta, have now detailed the state-by-state impacts of Obamacare cuts to the Medicare Advantage Plan used by many seniors.
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James Capretta, a former budget official under Mr. Bush, who is now a fellow at the Brookings Institution, says presidents put together these lists in part to deliver a message.
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Jared Rhoads, writing in The Objective Standard, shares with us his review of the latest book by Grace-Marie Turner, Jim Capretta, Tom Miller, and Bob Moffit, entitled Why Obamacare is Wrong for America.
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See, for example, Jeffrey Brown, Howard Gleckman, Peter Orszag, Robert Reischauer (as quoted by Jonathan Chait), and Paul Van de Water, and a follow up by Chuck and Jim Capretta.
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