Your Plan. Your Advocate.
For Affordable Health Care
Learn More About How Health Plans Are Advocating to Make Quality Health Care More Affordable and Accessible.
Your Health is Personal
When you need medical care, whether it’s an annual preventive care visit, a broken bone, or a serious emergency, you expect and need reliable, quality, efficient and affordable health care services. From expensive prescription drugs to the high cost of specialty care and hospital stays, health care costs can have a devastating impact on a family’s finances.
Providing Californians with affordable access to quality health care is our mission and our priority.
That’s why every day, health plans advocate for high-quality affordable health care through:
Supporting policies to make health care costs more affordable.
Negotiating with providers to keep costs affordable while prioritizing the delivery of quality care.
Holding pharmaceutical drug companies accountable for their skyrocketing prices.
Investing in innovation and technology to continuously improve health care, create more efficiencies, and keep costs affordable.
Increasing accessibility to free or low-cost wellness and prevention services to keep Californians healthy.
Collaborating with California’s new Office of Health Care Affordability (OHCA) to keep health care affordable.
Health Plans Are Working Every Day to Make Health Care More Affordable for Californians
Health plans are advocating for policies to make health care more affordable and negotiating with hospitals and pharmaceutical companies to contain costs while preserving quality medical care. The vast majority of health plan spending in California goes to pay for medical services like hospital and doctor visits, prescription drugs, lab tests, x-rays, and medical supplies. In fact, health plans spent more than $256 billion, or 87 cents out of every health plan dollar, on medical care in 2024.
We are making progress and will continue to be your advocate for affordable health care
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of Californians are satisfied with the health care they and their families receive today.
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of Californians have health coverage – an increase of more than 11% since 2013.
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of each health care dollar goes to medical care to serve Californians.