Looking to our country’s history, we can see a clear progression in our endeavors to address illness and ensure health—from bloodletting to biomedical science. But over the past 50 years, we have invested untold billions of dollars in new policies, proposals, and pilot programs, and we still have not developed a realistic solution or strategy to address the complex challenges we now face. Costs continue to soar, huge disparities abound, and Americans’ health status pales in comparison to that of healthier residents of other developed countries.
At the Rippel Foundation, we envision an America in which all the systems that affect health are designed, led, and financed in ways that foster healthy people and thriving communities.
To achieve better health, and contain costs, we must simultaneously improve population health and fundamentally redesign how we deliver care. The Rippel Foundation’s mission is to seed and support innovations at the frontiers of this challenging work.