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Public News Service: Health Orgs Back Permanent-Provider Tax for Health-Care Access Fund
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Two huge, nonpartisan health advocacy nonprofits are coming out in favor of making Minnesota's provider tax permanent to protect the state's popular Health Care Access Fund. The American Heart Association and the American Cancer Society are joining the state's hospitals in lobbying lawmakers not to let ...
Robbinsdale Resident Addresses Cancer Care Costs in Congressional Briefing
... briefing comes just one day before the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments in California v. Texas to evaluate the constitutionality of the health care law, a law that contains numerous patient protections the have improved access to affordable, quality health care for those with pre-existing conditions including cancer. Speakers discussed the potential impact of the outcome of the case could ...
The Globe: Protect coverage for state’s most vulnerable cancer patients
... Action Network, Wilder More than 31,000 people in Minnesota will be diagnosed with cancer this year. Many of these individuals are receiving health care coverage through the state’s Medicaid program. For them, this program will be their lifeline. Currently, legislation being considered in the ... patients, survivors and many other individuals managing serious, chronic conditions being denied access to timely, appropriate and life-saving health care and treatments. I stood beside both my parents as they died of cancer. I know firsthand that battling cancer is often sickening and ...
Minnesota Gubernatorial Candidates Answer Questions about Cancer Policy in ACS CAN Voter Guide
... legislation to raise the age of sale for all tobacco products in Minnesota to 21? Do you support a sustainable, long-term funding source for the Health Care Access Fund, whether that would be extending the provider tax or replacing it with a new funding source? Cancer Votes is the nation’s ...