Reforming States Group Publishes Letter to the New Administration

While Congress prepares to debate the future of the Affordable Care Act, we know that bipartisan action on health care reform is possible.

A diverse group of state health leaders has endorsed a bipartisan agenda to improve population health for the new administration. The authors are members of the Reforming States Group’s Steering Committee —one of the nation’s only bipartisan group of health policy leaders from both the executive and legislative branches of state government.

States have major responsibilities in many facets of health care policy and operations—and, as such, are uniquely well positioned to improve the health of populations. State officials, working across party lines and in partnership with new federal executive branch leaders, can do much to get this work done. The New England Journal of Medicine has also just published a Perspective piece about the agenda by RSG leaders.

“Improving population health need not be a partisan issue,” said Perspective co-author and Steering Committee member Susan Birch, Executive Director of the Division of Health Care Policy and Financing for the state of Colorado. “This is a broad agenda of evidence-based proposals.  We look forward to working with the new administration to implement them.”

Read the Letter to the New Administration