ABOUT THE HEALTH REFORM HUB

The Health Reform Hub provides a central access point for the latest news and information about market-based ideas in the health reform debate. The Hub provides a portal to critical analyses and insights from leaders in the health policy community and their assessments of major health reform proposals being considered by policymakers in Washington and around the country.

The Health Reform Hub is a project of the Galen Institute, a non-profit research organization that works to promote ideas that advance individual freedom, consumer choice, and competition in the health sector. The Galen Institute also facilitates the work of the Health Policy Consensus Group, an affiliation of health policy experts from the leading market-based think tanks. This site highlights research and analyses produced by Galen Institute experts, Health Policy Consensus Group members, and others who are committed to a patient-centered approach to health reform.

Through its integrated use of media tools, including up-to-the-minute audio and video broadcasts and Ning chat rooms, the Hub allows visitors to stay informed and engaged. The site offers the latest in news about free market ideas, including the latest commentaries, studies, or blog postings. The Hub also provides a forum for visitors to the site to create their own communities and discuss health reform solutions and ways to participate in the debate.

Americans are engaged as never before in a pivotal debate over how to solve the serious problems facing our health sector. There is widespread agreement that we must find ways to make health care and coverage more affordable and help millions of uninsured Americans to get health insurance. The Hub is your portal to ideas and experts devoted to market-based health policy solutions that restore power over health care decisions to doctors and patients.

More About the Health Policy Consensus Group

The nonpartisan Health Policy Consensus Group, facilitated by the Galen Institute, is a task force of leading policy experts, health care economists and researchers from the major market-oriented think tanks. Since its inception in 1993, the Consensus Group has continued to build the health policy knowledge base by bringing to light fact-based ideas, proposals and the latest available research centered on patient-friendly health care.

The Consensus Group helps to educate policymakers and the public on different approaches to reform by providing a thorough analysis of their benefits and disadvantages. While it does not endorse specific legislative proposals, the group does promote incentive-based reforms it believes will strengthen the U.S. health care market.

The Consensus Group believes that a competitive marketplace is the best way to lower health care costs and give Americans the ability to choose the quality care that best suits their needs. Read the Health Policy Consensus Group's Principles of Consumer-Driven Care.