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2020 Maine Session Summary
Victory in the fight against cancer requires bold new public policies that promote cancer prevention, early detection of cancer, and expand access to quality, affordable health care. Lawmakers make many decisions that impact the lives of Mainers touched by cancer and their leadership is vital to defeating this disease. In 2020, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) worked with the Maine Legislature in support of the following priorities: Ensuring Access to Quality Care Surprise Medical Billing ... insurance on their own or through a small employer, spreading health care costs across a larger number of individuals and providing greater cost protections for high cost claims within the pooled market. The law also requires insurers to offer a set of health insurance plans that would ...
American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network Expresses Deep Concern with Biennial Budget
... – are paid to the state from the tobacco industry, aimed at compensating for disease and death caused by the tobacco industry. A coalition of public health groups in Maine, including the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), the American Lung Association and the American Heart Association, issued the following statement: “It is important to remember that Maine ... and disease caused by Big Tobacco and was intended to be used to combat future tobacco use: tonight’s decision by the legislature is a breach of trust that those dollars would be used to protect future generations from tobacco’s carnage,” said Lance Boucher, director of public policy ...
Maine, New Jersey and Oregon are latest states to raise their cigarette sales age to 21
In less than a month, three states – Maine , New Jersey and Oregon – have enacted laws that prohibit the selling of cigarettes and other tobacco products to anyone under the age of 21. Smoking rates have declined in recent years, but the use of cigarettes by children and teens remains unacceptably high. In 2015, 25% of high ... teenage years that most of them will never start smoking later,” said Christopher Friend, the Oregon Government Relations Director at ACS CAN. If the sales age was raised to 21 nationally, it’s estimated there would be 223,000 fewer premature deaths, according to an Institute of ...