At National Review, Jim Capretta explains why the Ryan-Rivlin plan would reform entitlements and bend the health care cost-curve down, while Obamacare would do neither. Actually, Obamacare would do far worse than “neither.” It would add an unsustainable new entitlement while also bending the nationwide cost-curve up.

The Ryan-Rivlin plan has been advanced by Rep. Paul Ryan (R., Wis.), the articulate and likable House Budget Committee chairman who consistently manages to sell conservative principles to a congressional district that looks a lot like a microcosm of the United States (the district voted for President Obama), and Alice Rivlin, director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) during parts of the Ford, Carter, and Reagan presidencies and director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Clinton. Unlike Obamacare, Ryan-Rivlin represents a bipartisan approach, advanced by two fiscal conservatives.