Improving Quality and Reducing Costs in Health Care: Engaging Consumers Using Electronic Tools
Dec. 10, 2012
Bipartisan Policy Center
The engagement of consumers using online and electronic tools, including mobile technology, is a central and necessary component of high-quality, cost-effective, patient-centered care, as well as rapidly emerging delivery system and payment reforms.
The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) explored ways in which clinicians, hospitals, health plans, technology companies and mobile health organizations have innovated, enabling consumers to have timely access to their health information, improve communication and coordination with their clinicians and care teams, and engage in strategies to improve their health and health care. Participants discussed the policies and strategies that will accelerate and promote the widespread adoption of these innovations.
Countering Online Radicalization in America
Dec. 4, 2012
Bipartisan Policy Center
From Al Qaeda to white supremacists, the internet plays an increasingly important role in radicalizing homegrown and domestic terrorists. BPC's Homeland Security Project released its latest report, Countering Online Radicalization in America, which explains how online radicalization works and what needs to be done to counter it. Based on extensive research and dozens of interviews with experts and policymakers, it sets out a balanced and practical approach, which respects American values while protecting the homeland from terrorism. The co-chairs outlined their conclusions, and a panel discussion followed.
Where Do We Go From Here? A Post-Election Analysis of Federal Transportation Policy
Nov. 30, 2012
Bipartisan Policy Center
Although reauthorizations of both the surface transportation and aviation bills were enacted in this Congress, many questions remain for a re-elected Obama administration and the new congress to address. Certainly, the levels of federal funding for investment in transportation infrastructure will be affected by broader considerations of the nation’s fiscal circumstances, including persistent annual budget deficits and possible consideration of comprehensive tax reform. This panel of transportation experts and stakeholders examined pressing questions in that context:
Are there likely to be increases in user-based transportation revenues, including the federal gasoline tax, and how will the administration and Congress deal with the continued viability of the Highway and Aviation Trust Funds? From where will the money come to invest in infrastructure, including addressing the protection of vulnerable coastal and inland areas from the likelihood of future, and potentially catastrophic, floods and storm surges? Will infrastructure investment be part of any ‘grand bargain’ over deficit and debt reduction? And how might the results of the 2012 presidential and congressional elections influence legislative and administrative actions both in the current ‘lame duck’ session and in the next two years?
Looking Back to Move Forward: The 1990 Budget Summit Revisited
Nov. 28, 2012
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 608
On the last day of the 1990 fiscal year, after months of difficult bipartisan negotiations, the President and leaders of Congress reached an agreement that yielded budget savings and lasting process reforms. What led to agreement then? Why was the initial agreement defeated? What lessons does that experience hold for today?
The Executive Branch and National Energy Policy: Time for Renewal
Nov. 27, 2012
The National Press Club (Holeman Lounge)
Remarkable developments are changing America’s energy landscape. Increases in domestic shale gas and oil production, growth in renewable energy, and steady efficiency improvements in all sectors of the economy have put the country on an energy and economic path that few predicted possible.
Building upon these achievements while addressing ever-present energy security threats as well as a range of environmental challenges, will require national leadership, vision, and careful policy choices.
Leadership starts with a re-invigorated approach to developing our national energy policy – an approach that can help overcome the problems that have hampered past efforts and put us on a more inclusive, balanced, resilient and enduring path. BPC’s Energy Project explored these challenges and discussed our recommendations for improving executive branch energy policy development, implementation, and accountability.
BPC's Fourth Annual Political Summit: Beyond the Ballot
Nov. 15, 2012
Tulane University (Lavin-Bernick Center)
Nov. 9, 2012
Bipartisan Policy Center
BPC hosted a panel of polling experts and politicos to examine the first statistics on voter turnout at the polls across the country, what demographics and populations showed up to cast their ballots and how, and to what degree, those votes impacted the elections.
2012 Congressional Race Analysis
Nov. 5, 2012
Bipartisan Policy Center
The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) hosted a panel of election experts as part of our 2012 Election Series, taking a closer look at congressional races. Our experts discussed the most important House and Senate races across the country and how they'll affect which party will hold the two chambers of Congress.
The Democracy Project released its 2012 Redistricting report outlining the impact of the 2012 redistricting cycle on the number of competitive seats and the make-up of the House of Representatives.
Campaign 2012 Coverage: Breaking New Ground
Oct. 23, 2012
Newseum (Walter and Leonore Annenberg Theater)
The Bipartisan Policy Center partnered with the Newseum to host a conversation with three groundbreaking journalists:
PBS's Judy Woodruff and Gwen Ifill, and CNN's Candy Crowley
Woodruff and Ifill are the first all-female team to anchor a network's Republican and Democratic National Convention coverage. On October 16, Crowley moderated the presidential debate at Hofstra University, making her the first woman to moderate a presidential debate in two decades.
The journalists talked about covering presidential campaigns and offered their unique insights into the 2012 election. The program took place just one day after the final presidential debate this year and exactly two weeks before Election Day.
A Conversation with Jon Huntsman
Oct. 19, 2012
Bipartisan Policy Center
Continuing its 2012 "On Leadership" Speaker Series, the Bipartisan Policy Center welcomed Jon Huntsman, former presidential candidate, governor of Utah and ambassador to both China and Singapore. Huntsman discussed his experiences on the campaign trail, reflected on his achievements as governor and described his commitment to bipartisanship across four different administrations.
Launch of the Financial Regulatory Reform Initiative
Oct. 18, 2012
Bipartisan Policy Center
The Bipartisan Policy Center's Financial Regulatory Reform Initiative will take a fresh look at our nation's financial regulatory system. The task force is comprised of former regulators and senior policy makers from both parties who have intimate first-hand knowledge of our financial and regulatory systems. Our goal is to produce bipartisan consensus reforms to our financial regulatory system to promote long-term sustainable economic growth.
The Price of Inaction: Energy and Economic Effects of a Nuclear Iran
Oct. 10, 2012
Bipartisan Policy Center
Iran's nuclear program is the most pressing national security challenge facing the United States. Making an informed judgment about which policy to pursue requires considering risks of stopping Iran's nuclear ambitions and the costs of failing to do so. Indeed, the consequences of a nuclear Iran are not limited to geopolitical risk, but carry a substantial economic risk too.
The Bipartisan Policy Center's (BPC) Iran Task Force released an analysis of the impact of a nuclear Iran on global oil prices and the subsequent effect on the U.S. economy.
Civil Conversations: Restoring Civility to the Debt Discussion
Oct. 9, 2012
The Brookings Institution (Falk Auditorium)
As political discussion has devolved more and more into hyperbole and vitriol over the past few years, solutions to the critical issues that face the nation - including our mounting deficits and national debt - have proven elusive. How to bring this discussion back to substantive issues, as opposed to partisan rhetoric?
On October 9, as part of her Civil Conversations Project, Krista Tippett of American Public Media's radio show On Being moderated a discussion at Brookings with Senior Fellow Alice Rivlin, former director of the Office of Management and Budget and Congressional Budget Office and Pete Domenici, former Republican senator from New Mexico and a senior fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center. Both renowned for their work on budget issues, they have created a bipartisan alliance, and discussed what they have learned, what is happening below the radar of partisan rancor, and what is at stake as the nation grapples with the debt crisis and political stalemate. Brookings Managing Director William J. Antholis delivered opening remarks.
Oct. 3, 2012
Newseum (Knight Conference Center - 8th Floor)
The exchange of information across the multiple individuals and organizations delivering and supporting care for any given patient—such as physician offices, hospitals, laboratories, pharmacies, and patients themselves—is a central and necessary component of high-quality, patient-centered, cost-effective care, as well as rapidly emerging delivery system and payment reforms.
The just released final rule for Stage 2 of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs-informally referred to as "Meaningful Use"—includes more robust requirements for electronic sharing of health information to support transitions of care.
The Imperative of Entitlement Reform and Health Care Cost Control
Oct. 1, 2012
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (B1 Conference Room)
Former Senators Sam Nunn (D-GA), Pete Domenici (R-NM), Warren Rudman (R-NH), and Evan Bayh (D-IN) hosted the final forum on America's fiscal challenge.
Bill Frist, Donna Shalala, John B. Taylor, and Alice Rivlin
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