In 2008, the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) launched the Leaders’ Project on the State of American Health Care, an effort to produce a comprehensive health reform plan that could win support from both Republicans and Democrats. Former Senate Majority Leaders Howard Baker, Tom Daschle and Bob Dole worked together to negotiate a plan to ensure all Americans have quality, affordable health care. It was released in June 2009. Now that health reform has been signed into law, the BPC will turn to the next logical step—developing a bipartisan approach to help states meet their ongoing budgetary, demographic and health reform challenges.
Nutrition and Physical Activity Initiative
The Bipartisan Policy Center’s (BPC) Nutrition and Physical Activity Initiative is a year-long effort to enhance physical activity and nutritional opportunities for all Americans. Led by a bipartisan group of four former U.S. cabinet secretaries, the initiative brings together key experts, policymakers, and stakeholders to identify opportunities for collaborative action in four priority areas: investing in children’s health; creating healthy schools; improving the health of communities; and developing healthy institutions.
Policymakers and leaders from every sector of health care agree that innovation and information technology (IT) is needed to help address the most pressing challenges confronting the U.S. health care system—rising costs, eroding coverage, and inconsistent quality. A number of efforts focused on addressing these health system challenges are now underway at the federal, state, and local levels. The Health Innovation Initiative conducts research and collaborates with experts and stakeholders across every sector of health care to develop recommendations that promote innovation and the use of IT to support improvements in the cost, quality, and patient experience of care.
How can businesses, communities and individuals come together to turn the tide and restore America's intertwined physical and fiscal health?
BPC's Nutrition and Physical Activity Initiative has released a report identifying the most promising opportunities to improve nutrition and physical activity for all Americans.
High and rising health care costs consume a large and rapidly growing portion of the federal budget, crowding out investments in other crucial priorities such as education, defense and infrastructure and putting pressure on other priorities of households, businesses and governments.
Health Care Cost Containment Report
A Bipartisan Rx for Patient-Centered Care and System-wide Cost Containment
Washington Post Op-Ed
Daschle, Domenici, Frist & Rivlin: How to build a better health-care system
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Read the report, Lots to Lose: How America's Health and Obesity Crisis Threatens our Economic Future
