Health Care Costs Understand health costs and what you can do about them. Listen:Keeping Healthy When the Economy is Not (Podcast Download; Transcript)Long-term Care Insurance (Podcast Download; Transcript) Current as of August 2012 Internet Citation: Health Care Costs. August 2012. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/patients-consumers/care-planning/costs/index.html