Our Priorities

As an advocate for consumers, CQC works to ensure that patients – and their right to high-quality and affordable health care – remain at the forefront of the health care debate. 

Consumers for Quality Care (CQC)-Ipsos research shows that two in three Americans struggle with predicting how much they will have to pay for health care when they need it. They fear health care costs even more than they worry about costs associated with retirement, college, housing or childcare. 

CQC aims to provide a voice for consumers and a platform to tell their stories and remind policymakers of the importance of quality comprehensive and affordable care, focusing on health care policies including:

• Toxic hospital billing practices 
• Nonprofit hospital accountability and lack of transparency in hospital pricing
• Co-pay accumulator adjustment programs
• Medical debt education and awareness
• Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) – rebate reform, affordability, transparency
• Insurance reform and affordability including addressing sky-high premiums, deductibles, and copays and anti-patient practices like prior authorization, step therapy, and life-threatening and questionable denials of needed treatments
• Protecting Medicaid: Medicaid is critical for millions of Americans and must be protected