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Former U.S. Senate Majority Leaders Baker, Daschle, Dole, and Mitchell

Launch Unprecedented Health Care Effort

Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) Project to Help Break Political Gridlock

WASHINGTON, DC—Former Senate Majority Leaders Howard Baker, Tom Daschle, Bob Dole and George Mitchell today announced a bipartisan project that will recommend U.S. health care system reforms to Congress and the administration. The Leaders’ Project on the State of American Health Care will feature a series of public forums, beginning with an April 24 event in Washington focused on improving the quality and value of health care. Future forums will focus on affordable and accessible health coverage, health care financing mechanisms, and the individual’s role in coverage and costs. Mark McClellan, director of the Brookings Institution’s Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform and former administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services under President Bush, and Chris Jennings, president of Jennings Policy Strategies Inc. and senior health care advisor to President Clinton, will provide guidance to the project, an initiative of the Bipartisan Policy Center.