2016 ANNUAL REPORT
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NEW RESOURCES<br />
FOR HEALTH POLICY<br />
INNOVATION<br />
Senior Fellow Alice Rivlin<br />
outlines proposals for containing<br />
costs of chronic care<br />
“As other Washington institutions grew more<br />
ideologically entrenched, [Isabel Sawhill and <br />
Ron Haskins] modeled a partnership that defied <br />
labels other than ‘indispensable.’”<br />
JASON DEPARLE, NEW YORK TIMES<br />
PHOTO: PAUL MORIGI<br />
With health care spending in the U.S.<br />
reaching $3 trillion annually and powerful<br />
disruptions to the health care system<br />
underway, the need for careful analysis<br />
and thoughtful proposals for reform continues<br />
to grow. To help advance innovation<br />
in health policy, Brookings Trustee Leonard<br />
D. Schaeffer made a gift of $4 million to<br />
establish the Leonard D. Schaeffer Initiative<br />
for Innovation in Health Policy as a partnership<br />
between Brookings and the Leonard<br />
D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy &<br />
Economics at the University of Southern<br />
California (USC), where he also serves as<br />
a Trustee. Under the leadership of Senior<br />
Fellow Paul Ginsberg, who is a professor at<br />
USC and director of the Center for Health<br />
Policy at Brookings, the Initiative will conduct<br />
research on pressing challenges like<br />
the future of Medicare as costs continue<br />
to rise, shaping the Affordable Care Act<br />
to improve outcomes, and maximizing the<br />
value of innovation in drugs and devices.<br />
PHOTO: PAUL MORIGI<br />
PHOTO: STEVEN E. PURCELL<br />
Brookings Trustee Leonard Schaeffer at the<br />
launch of the Leonard D. Schaeffer Initiative for<br />
Innovation in Health Policy<br />
Distinguished Fellow in Residence Ben Bernanke (RIGHT)<br />
welcomes Yi Gang, Assistant Governor of the People’s Bank of China<br />
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