The goal of the State of Reform Health Policy Conference is to provide a framework for the discussion of the most pressing challenges facing health care today, by the most diverse audience of health care professionals possible. We engage all parts of the health care spectrum – from delivery to legislation, from payment to workforce development. We do so in order to attempt to bridge the gap between the world of medicine with the world of legislation – two worlds that would prefer to not spend much time together, frankly, but which more than ever need to learn how to better understand one another.