Thank you in Advance Blue Cross Blue Shield is about two million New Yorkers who almost lost access to the care they depend on. Instead of big numbers and corporate statements, we hear from the real New Yorkers: a firefighter, a Chinatown shopkeeper, a boxer, a goalie. No hype, no spin — just honest, face-to-face pleas to put lives before budgets. Two million people. Two million reasons to come to the table. And in the end, they did — an agreement was reached, and care stayed in place.