What should health and healthcare in America look like? And how do we get there from where we are today?

These are the tough questions Re>Think Health is addressing. As a group of experienced leaders, thinkers and doers from business, academia, energy and health, we have come together with a single purpose: to understand and address the obstacles and opportunities to achieving better health, better care and lower costs for all Americans. By providing fresh and realistic answers, we believe it is possible to give Americans what they really want and need: to be as healthy as possible for as long as possible -- and to be treated quickly, compassionately, effectively and affordably when sick.

We start by focusing on the true goal of health: optimal resilience and vitality. The path there includes wellness and prevention — but also access to the best and safest care when we need it: doctors, hospitals, technology, pharmaceuticals, caregivers, and more. The key is to match the needs of the population with the right intervention, at the right time, delivered by the right person, at the right place, and supported by the right business model. By designing a system with these touchstones in mind, health can improve while costs are significantly reduced.

Fixing our broken healthcare system is not just a technical problem… and buying healthcare does not equate to buying health. By bringing a whole systems perspective to health and healthcare, we can rethink and align our values, policies, approaches, and investments. Through this, we can restore health to our population, as well as quality, confidence, and financial stability to a broken system. Clearly, the solutions must be compelling and sustainable over time and they must solicit wide political, provider, business and community support to be so.

The models and approaches we are pursuing are fresh and innovative — but also proven, nonpartisan and practical, grounded in rigorous study and informed by scientific, financial, market, political and social realities. They embrace the complex web that makes up our health system. We are inherently optimistic and believe that, together, we can speed the transition from our outdated healthcare system to a truly effective health system – at a fraction of the cost.