Key Issues

Tackling Healthcare's Biggest Challenges

HLC drives policy solutions on the issues that matter most to the future of America’s healthcare system. From improving patient access to harnessing AI and strengthening cybersecurity, our cross-sectoral leadership develops innovative approaches that transform the delivery of U.S. healthcare.

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Transforming Access to Patient-Centered Care

HLC promotes access to affordable value-based coverage that rewards quality, patient-centered care, and health outcomes.

Value-Based Care

HLC champions private sector value-based care initiatives and supports federal efforts to drive greater efficiencies in patient care delivery, reduce unnecessary costs, reward collaborative treatment, encourage coordinated care, and improve individuals’ overall health.

Medicare Advantage

HLC is committed to improving the public-private partnership while meeting the needs of beneficiaries and maintaining financial sustainability.

Defining Industry Response to Disruptive Megatrends

HLC and our members are informing the development of federal cybersecurity legislation and regulations to strengthen protections for patients and advance opportunities to realize artificial intelligence’s potential in healthcare.

Cybersecurity

Based on input from cyber experts from across the healthcare industry, HLC has created a collaborative public-private framework aimed at strengthening federal cybersecurity. Our efforts help define appropriate incident reporting and provide restoration and resiliency recommendations.

Artificial Intelligence

HLC is identifying barriers, opportunities, and risks with private sector leaders to shape policy and to unleash the potential of AI to improve health.

Promoting Private Sector Investment and Ingenuity

HLC is advancing policies and initiatives to promote robust competition within the healthcare market and further encourage investments necessary to drive innovation.

Innovation

HLC counters efforts to expand government price controls on the private sector by advancing policies that foster ongoing robust scientific research and development necessary to produce more affordable, accessible, and cutting-edge treatments, therapies, and cures.

Competition

By advocating for balanced antitrust regulations and thoughtful oversight, HLC aims to ensure and protect appropriate, market-based business transactions.

Advocacy

Leading the Change in Healthcare

The U.S. healthcare system is undergoing rapid transformation—and HLC is where that change begins. As the only organization that unites senior leaders from every sector of the healthcare industry, HLC empowers its members to work collaboratively on forward-thinking solutions to the system’s most pressing challenges.

On behalf of our members, HLC actively partners with policymakers to adopt reforms that transform patient-centered care, promote private sector investment and ingenuity, and leverage disruptive megatrends.

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