Federal Issues

Improving quality, helping manage costs
We believe an essential ingredient for practical and sustainable health care reform is improving quality, which can help manage costs. There are many opportunities to improve health care in this country, as we are far from having a system that provides the right care at the right place at the right time. Building on six principles, WellPoint has identified solutions that will deliver better health care while helping to reduce costs:
• Promote evidence-based medicine; determine real-world outcomes
• Advance health care quality by disseminating information throughout the system
• Focus on prevention and manage chronic illness
• Improve effective use of drug therapies to prevent and manage illness
• Promote strategies to reduce medical errors and adverse drug events
• Reduce costs through eliminating fraud, reducing costs related to litigation, and improving administration *Read more*

Covering the uninsured and improving coverage for all Americans
Enacting strategies to improve quality and control costs is essential to building a health care system that works for all Americans both now and in the future. While WellPoint believes improving quality and reducing costs is the key to a better system, we believe we must also get our country on a sustainable path to covering everyone. This would involve two key paths:

Reforming insurance markets to better meet the needs of consumers

Enacting strategies to expand and finance sustainable coverage for all Americans