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Healthcare Cost

Millennial health concerns have consequences: Slower financial growth and higher healthcare costs

Healthcare Cost

Surprise bills: Separating myths from facts

Issues

Our top priorities, explained.

Tackling America's opioid epidemic

BCBS companies are addressing the opioid crisis in communities around the country, ensuring patients get the right care in the right setting.

Addressing the rising cost of healthcare

Why does healthcare cost so much? The price of medical care is the single biggest factor, accounting for 90 percent of spending.

Providing access to safe, effective and affordable prescriptions

As prescription drug prices climb, we are working to ensure BCBS members get the medication they need at a price they can afford.

Creating—and sustaining—the innovation that is Medicare

BCBS companies provide coordinated, patient-centered care for millions of Medicare beneficiaries and are making sure it continues to modernize.

Improving the individual market

Healthcare should be available to everyone, no matter who they are or where they live. This starts with improving the individual market.

Supporting and improving Medicaid

BCBS companies provide access to critical health services for millions of adults and children through Medicaid, and are addressing the unique health challenges they face.

Insights

Leading voices in healthcare share their ideas.

Tobacco

An e-merging epidemic threatens progress on teen smoking

By Robin Koval, President and CEO, Truth Initiative®

We have made great strides over the last two decades in the fight against youth tobacco use. In 2000, 23 percent of teens smoked, a proportion that dropped to an all-time low of 4.6 percent in 2018 — a remarkable milestone for public health. Truth Initiative is proud to have significantly contributed to that decline through our youth smoking prevention and education campaign, truth® which has prevented millions of young people from becoming smokers, including more than 2.5 million in the past three years alone.¹