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Fifth Circuit to Hear Oral Arguments in Case of Braidwood Management v. Becerra

... Management v. Becerra, a case that threatens access to evidence-based preventive services without cost-sharing as required under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The services at-risk include those recommended by scientific experts at the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).  National health groups (listed below) filed an amicus brief citing research showing how cost-sharing decreases patients’ ability to receive care that can ...

House Budget Cuts Would Deal Devastating Blow to Cancer Patients and Their Families

... to mark up their budget resolution for Fiscal Year 2025. It contains significant cuts in discretionary spending that would threaten critical health care programs, such as Medicaid, that are essential to cancer patients and their families. The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network ... such cuts in a statement for the record submitted to the committee. The statement reads in part: “Medicaid is the critical state–federal health insurance program that serves millions of the most economically vulnerable Americans – including over 37 million children – many ...

Cancer Advocates Deliver Hundreds of Petitions Urging Rep. Ciscomani to Protect Medicaid

... Federal lawmakers have proposed slashing up to $880 billion from Medicaid over the next decade. Such devastating cuts would put essential health services at risk for millions of people nationwide and for the more than 2 million Arizonans who rely on Medicaid for lifesaving health care -- including prenatal care for pregnant mothers, prescriptions for limited-income seniors, well-child visits for little kids, and ...

Cancer Patients and Survivors Cheer Final Passage of Inflation Reduction Act

... Today the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Inflation Reduction Act, which includes several provisions that will reduce the costs of health care for millions of cancer patients and survivors. A statement from Lisa Lacasse, president of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) follows: “The final passage of the Inflation Reduction Act marks one of the most significant extensions of affordable health coverage to millions of Americans, including cancer patients, survivors, and their families, in more than a decade. “For those Medicare ...

FMAP Extension Will Provide Critical Help to Low-Income Families Affected by Cancer

... D.C. – August 10, 2010 – “Families affected by cancer are applauding Congress today for helping to guarantee access to lifesaving health care for the country’s most economically vulnerable families by extending the enhanced Medicaid match.  “With millions of Americans now out of work and without health insurance coverage, and most states facing serious pressure to cut public health funding, Medicaid’s safety net is needed now more than ...

MD and DC Making Progess on Cancer-Fighting Public Policies

... on Cancer-Fighting Public Policies Maryland & DC Lawmakers Have Opportunities to Save Lives and Money Through Improving Access to Affordable Health Coverage, Tobacco Control and Quality of Life Measures   WASHINGTON, DC – August 3, 2017 – Maryland and the District of Columbia are ... cancer prevention efforts, curb tobacco use, prioritize the quality of life for patients and their families and increase access to critical health coverage.” How Do You Measure Up? rates states in nine specific areas of public policy that can help fight cancer, including smoke-free ... Additionally, the report offers a blueprint for how Maryland and the District of Columbia can work within the current federal health care law on approaches to improving access to affordable and adequate health coverage for cancer patients and their families. It outlines ...

MD and DC Making Progess on Cancer-Fighting Public Policies

... on Cancer-Fighting Public Policies Maryland & DC Lawmakers Have Opportunities to Save Lives and Money Through Improving Access to Affordable Health Coverage, Tobacco Control and Quality of Life Measures   WASHINGTON, DC – August 3, 2017 – Maryland and the District of Columbia are ... cancer prevention efforts, curb tobacco use, prioritize the quality of life for patients and their families and increase access to critical health coverage.” How Do You Measure Up? rates states in nine specific areas of public policy that can help fight cancer, including smoke-free ... Additionally, the report offers a blueprint for how Maryland and the District of Columbia can work within the current federal health care law on approaches to improving access to affordable and adequate health coverage for cancer patients and their families. It outlines ...

Maryland and DC Making Progress on Cancer-FIghting Public Policies

... on Cancer-Fighting Public Policies Maryland & DC Lawmakers Have Opportunities to Save Lives and Money Through Improving Access to Affordable Health Coverage, Tobacco Control and Quality of Life Measures   WASHINGTON, DC – August 3, 2017 – Maryland and the District of Columbia are ... cancer prevention efforts, curb tobacco use, prioritize the quality of life for patients and their families and increase access to critical health coverage.” How Do You Measure Up? rates states in nine specific areas of public policy that can help fight cancer, including smoke-free ... Additionally, the report offers a blueprint for how Maryland and the District of Columbia can work within the current federal health care law on approaches to improving access to affordable and adequate health coverage for cancer patients and their families. It outlines ...

President Biden Doubles Down on His Call to End Cancer as We Know It in State of the Union Address

... Moonshot goal a reality,” said Dr. Karen E. Knudsen, CEO of ACS and ACS CAN. “We were pleased to hear the President again call on lawmakers, health care providers, the cancer community at large and the American people to join together in this mission. By accelerating discovery, improving access ... with the administration outlining policy changes that would help bring the US closer to the President’s goal, including increasing access to health coverage through Medicaid expansion, increasing funding for cancer research at the NIH and NCI, appropriating additional funding for a new ...

Advocates Set Sights on Improving Access to Cancer Prevention & Detection, Reducing Burden of Disease for PA Patients in 2025

... patients. Beginning in the new year, Act 39 of 2024 will make it so that all patients who can benefit and are insured through a state-regulated health plan will receive coverage for biomarker testing, a game changer in the fight against cancer and an essential step in accessing precision medicine treatments. Pennsylvanians also secured a victory for access to care through Act 42 of 2024, the newly enacted legislation that includes telemedicine as a covered benefit in the Commonwealth. “This legislative ... so that a person’s economic status does not determine whether or not they have the ability to detect and survive cancer. “Soaring health care costs have made it so that patients are forced to take on medical debt and suffer through its cascading effects in order to receive ...

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