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Cancer Survivors Look to State Leaders to Ensure Access to Quality & Affordable Care, Invest in Innovation in New Legislative Session
... director for ACS CAN in New York, outlines each of those opportunities in the following statement: “We’re coming off a turbulent 2025 where health care affordability dominated headlines, yet--even under the spotlight--patients’ access to care eroded. Deep Medicaid cuts from H.R.1, coupled with uncertainty around enhanced premium tax credits for Marketplace plans, have created a looming health care cliff. We’re no longer looking over the edge. We’re bracing for impact. Now is the time for leaders in Albany to act and soften the ...
Patient Advocates Send Message to State Leaders: ‘Defend Medicaid Access to Precision Medicine'
Following today’s health-Medicaid budget hearing, more than a dozen cancer survivors and ACS CAN advocates gathered at the New York State Capitol to call on ... took effect, extending biomarker testing access to millions of New Yorkers. The Executive Budget proposal would reverse this gain for health equity by eliminating coverage criteria for Medicaid, potentially jeopardizing coverage for millions of New Yorkers, prompting ... biomarker testing coverage for Medicaid, exclusively, takes aim at the most vulnerable patients who already face countless barriers to their care. As someone who still relies on Medicaid and faces the risk of recurrence, I’m asking lawmakers to reject this proposal outright.” ACS ...