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Oklahoma Becomes 37th State to Increase Access to Health Coverage Through Medicaid

OKLAHOMA CITY  —    Oklahomans  approval of Medicaid expansion will improve health outcomes and reduce cancer disparities  for  2 00,000 citizens  now  eligible for health   care coverage.    On Tuesday, a majority of voters responded "yes" to  Question 802, which asked if Medicaid should  be fully expand ed   to ...

Cancer Patients Urge Congress to Include Critical Health Provisions in Reconciliation Package

... prepares to consider the Build Back Better Act , cancer patients, survivors and their caregivers are urging lawmakers to make sure certain key health provisions are included in any final legislation. Those provisions include: Closing the Medicaid coverage gap in the 12 states that have yet to expand Medicaid eligibility Extending the increased subsidies for purchasing health coverage on the marketplace Capping Medicare enrollee’s prescription drug costs while smoothing expenses for beneficiaries Creating a paid ... people would gain coverage. For cancer patients enrolled in Medicare the unlimited cost sharing for prescription drugs can render their care unaffordable. Capping the costs and allowing them to space out prescription co-payments throughout the year, rather than upfront, would enable ...

Marketplace Health Insurance Changes Likely to Impede Patients’ Access to Insurance; Increase Consumer Costs

Washington, D.C.--Today the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule regarding changes to marketplace health insurance plans. The rule, intended to help stabilize insurance markets created by the Affordable Care Act, potentially restricts patients’ access to special enrollment periods (SEPs), reduces the number of Essential Community Providers with ... supports a strong marketplace and welcomes efforts to strengthen it. However, any improvement efforts should not jeopardize access to meaningful health insurance for cancer patients, survivors and those at risk for the disease.   “Under the new rule, patients trying to enroll in insurance ...

American Cancer Society Expert Testifies About Proposed Health Insurance Market Changes

Washington, D.C., February 2, 2017—Requiring people to maintain continuous health insurance coverage or risk the imposition of higher premiums could pose significant burdens to cancer patients and survivors, according to Dr. Len Lichtenfeld, deputy chief medical officer for the American Cancer Society. During a House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health hearing on insurance market changes, Lichtenfeld said the draft bills raise questions about the ways in which someone with a pre-existing ... Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), Lichtenfeld urged committee members to consider the impact of potential changes to the health care law on cancer patients and survivors. It’s estimated that 15.5 million Americans are cancer survivors and 1.7 million will be diagnosed with ...

CBO: Health Insurance Premiums Would Spike 20 Percent Next Year Without Critical Cost-Sharing Payments

Washington, D.C.—The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) today released its assessment of what would happen to health insurance premiums should the administration stop paying cost-sharing reductions (CSRs). The CBO projects the average monthly premiums would ... clear the real costs and consequences of failing to fund cost-sharing reductions that millions of Americans rely on in order to afford their health care coverage. “Ending these payments will do nothing to improve our nation’s health care system. Instead without the commitment of this ...

Patient Groups Urge Court to Reject Rule Weakening Health Insurance Standards

Washington, D.C.—Patient groups representing millions of people with serious health conditions are urging a U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to reject a federal rule expanding the availability of short-term ... limited-duration (STLD) insurance plans. The Court is scheduled to hear arguments today.   STLD plans are exempt from having to cover essential health benefits, like prescription drugs and hospitalization, and can deny coverage for pre-existing conditions.   The groups, which include the ... comprehensive coverage in violation of current law.   A statement from the groups follows:   “Rarely has the need for comprehensive health care coverage been clearer than it is today, yet the expansion of short-term limited-duration insurance plans threatens to erode patient access to ...

South Dakota House Affirms Importance of Access to Care, Defeats HJR 5002

PIERRE, S.D. –– The importance of South Dakotans having access to quality, affordable health care was affirmed Thursday when the House of Representatives voted against moving House Joint Resolution 5002 forward, killing the latest attempt ... initiated and approved it.  Since Medicaid was expanded by ballot in 2022, 30,000 hard-working South Dakotans have gained access to lifesaving health insurance. The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), working alongside a broad coalition of health care professionals and ...

Congress Approves Relief Bill with Expanded Access to Health Coverage; Sends to President for Signature

Washington, D.C.—Today Congress finished its work passing legislation that will expand access to health care coverage to more Americans, including cancer patients and survivors, who may have lost their insurance due to the ongoing pandemic. The bill will increase the eligibility and generosity of subsidies to cover the costs of marketplace health plans, offer financial support to cover all of the premium costs for laid off workers who choose to keep their employer-sponsored health ...

Survey: Majority of Cancer Patients Struggle to Afford Cancer Care

WASHINGTON, D.C.— The majority of cancer patients in the United States say they struggle to afford the costs of their cancer care. According to the latest  Survivor Views  survey from the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), 61% of cancer patients ... and are more apt to cut pills in half to reduce costs (18%). Over 80% of patients say they’ve had to make financial sacrifices to cover their health care expenses, including 44% who’ve dipped into their savings, 36% who’ve gone into credit card debt to pay medical bills and nearly a ... Those provisions include, extending increased subsidies for purchasing private insurance on the marketplace, providing access to affordable health coverage for more than two million people in a dozen states which have yet to expand Medicaid, capping Medicare enrollees’ out-of-pocket ...

House Passed Health Bill Risks Pricing Cancer Patients, Survivors Out of Insurance Market

Today the House of Representatives passed a health care bill that could leave cancer patients, survivors and those at risk for the disease unable to access or keep quality health insurance. The bill would create a coverage patchwork whereby patients with pre-existing conditions could be charged more for their coverage ...

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