Reports
Update on Demonstrations for Dual-Eligible Medicare-Medicaid Beneficiaries
This report provides a status update on the Financial Alignment Initiative. The Financial Alignment Initiative was launched in 2011 by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in partnership with states and insurance plans to test how to better manage and coordinate Medicare and Medicaid services.
Increasing Innovation in America’s Water Systems
The infrastructure that collects, treats, and distributes drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater is aging. Meanwhile, affordability concerns have hit a critical juncture. This paper provides federal, state, and local recommendations while exploring how to break down barriers to innovation, reduce costs, and improve health and environmental outcomes.
Immigration Trends and the Immigration Debate
Over the past 20 years, the flow and demographic profile of immigrants entering the United States has changed dramatically. This issue brief explores the changes in key demographic categories of immigration, along with trends in unauthorized immigration and border activity, and how they compare with the current immigration debate.
Results from BPC’s CEO Council Physical Activity Challenge to American Business
This report was originally published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Physical inactivity is a major public health threat: inactive adults are at an elevated risk of early death, heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, and depression.1 Despite these…
Debt Limit Analysis
If policymakers do not act on the debt limit, BPC estimates that Treasury will have insufficient cash to meet all financial obligations sometime between Nov. 10-16.
Financing Long-Term Services and Supports
Recent analyses suggest that roughly 52 percent of individuals turning age 65 will require long-term services and supports at some point in their life. In this final report, BPC offers recommendations to improve the financing of long-term services and supports.
The Upcoming Social Security and Medicare Trustees’ Reports: A Preview
It has helped immeasurably that the two public trustees have generally striven to operate as a bipartisan team, rather than dividing to offer competing partisan perspectives.
The Power of Innovation: Inventing the Future
Advanced energy technologies represent a multitrilliondollar opportunity for American businesses and workers.
North American Free Trade Agreement: An Overview
From its very beginning, the North American Free Trade Agreement has been a source of controversy and the subject of expansive claims about its benefits and negative impacts on the American economy and workers alike.
Provider Competencies for the Prevention and Management of Obesity
Few health professionals and trainees receive training in the prevention and management of obesity. The Provider Competencies for the Prevention and Management of Obesity were designed by more than 20 leading health organizations representing a dozen health professions. They are aimed at many types of health professionals engaged in obesity prevention and management.
Dialogue: The Annual Report Issue
