Center for Health Care Affordability
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The Center’s First Community Conversation
December 9, 2025
The Center for Health Care Affordability held its first community conversation with patient and consumer advocates on November 20 at the Wilder Foundation. Over 30 participants joined in discussion about opportunities for potential partnership to make health care more affordable for families, workers, and employers.
Please visit Insights from the First Community Conversation with the Center for Health Care Affordability (PDF) for a summary of the meeting.
Apply to Join the Provider and Payer Advisory Task Force by Nov. 14
The Center for Health Care Affordability is seeking applications for the Provider and Payer Advisory Task Force, which will convene starting in January 2026. This group will bring together health care providers, insurers, and other health care leaders to ensure the Center for Health Care Affordability’s recommendations reflect on-the-ground expertise and real-word implementation considerations.
Learn more and apply at Board/Commission: Provider and Payer Advisory Task Force.
Meet the Center for Health Care Affordability Director Alex Caldwell
Alex Caldwell was named as the inaugural director of the Center for Health Care Affordability in January of 2025. She comes to The Center after serving as an associate director at FSG, a global nonprofit consulting firm that partners with foundations and corporations to create equitable systems change.
As director, Caldwell will lead The Center’s efforts to develop a holistic understanding of the key drivers of health care costs in Minnesota, engage the public on the impact of rising health care costs, develop related research priorities and propose data-driven policy solutions.
Caldwell brings a history of engaging stakeholders and successfully implementing diverse approaches to reach strategic goals to The Center. During her tenure at FSG, she leveraged her expertise in behavioral health, children and youth as well as health equity to craft strategies that created lasting, meaningful social impact in partnership with community leaders. These efforts included creating an impact measurement approach for a large U.S.-based clinical professional organization, refining strategic grantmaking plans for the Katz Amsterdam Foundation and helping develop strategic priorities and implementation plans for the Headwaters Foundation.
Prior to joining FSG, Caldwell led teams of researchers and consultants at the Colorado Health Institute (CHI), a nonpartisan, nonprofit research and consulting firm in Denver. At CHI, she conducted needs assessments, strategic planning processes and evaluations in close partnership with government, philanthropic and community leaders.
Caldwell earned a Bachelor of Science in biology from Dickenson College and a Master of Public Health from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.