Health Project

About the Project

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.

Health Project leaders on value of BPC: "We don't have to check our thoughts and ideas at the door"
Dec. 12, 2011

Transforming Health Care: The Role of Health IT
Jan. 27, 2012

Despite the introduction of IT to nearly every other aspect of modern life, the U.S. health care system remains largely paper-based.

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New Minimum Standards for Health Care Benefits
Jan. 6, 2012

HHS lays the groundwork for EHB regulations ahead of the 2014 launch of insurance exchanges

By Meredith Hughes

Starting in 2014, the federal government will mandate new minimum standards for health benefit packages in the small group and individual insurance markets. These essential health benefit (EHB) will impact plans both inside and outside the state-based health insurance exchanges scheduled to launch in 2014.

Report: Much work still needed to achieve widespread use of computerized patient records
Jan. 27, 2012

America may be a technology-driven nation, but the health care system’s conversion from paper to computerized records needs lots of work to get the bugs out, according to experts who spent months studying the issue.

Hospitals and doctors’ offices increasingly are going digital, the Bipartisan Policy Center says in a report being released Friday. But there’s been little progress getting the computer systems to talk to one another, exchanging data the way financial companies do.

New Minimum Standards for Health Care Benefits
Jan. 6, 2012

VIDEO: Health Project Leaders Embody BPC's Values
Dec. 12, 2011

Health Care Industry at a Crossroads
Dec. 12, 2011

BPC's Task Force on Delivery System Reform and Health IT Releases its Interim Findings
Oct. 27, 2011

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Health Information Exchange Implementations Encounter Obstacles
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