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Health Care Access Should be Top Priority for Georgia Lawmakers in 2025

... gap by fully expanding Medicaid, which would extend critical, lifesaving coverage to nearly 500,000 Georgians. An ACS study finds having health insurance is the number one determinant of whether a person survives cancer. “Closing the coverage gap offers a better alternative to ... full Medicaid expansion would cost the state $496 per new enrollee. “Medicaid expansion offers a more comprehensive answer to Georgia’s health care crisis by covering more people, saving the state millions of dollars and helping to keep rural hospitals open. The time to act is now.”   0 ...

New CBO Score Projects 14 Million Americans Will Lose Health Coverage in 2018 Under House-Passed Health Care Bill

Washington, D.C., —Today the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued its updated assessment of the House-passed American Health Care Act (AHCA) – estimating the number of Americans who would likely lose health insurance as compared to current law, as well as the possible cost changes for those who maintain coverage. The CBO projects that under the ...

More Than a Decade After Passage of Federal Health Care Law, Wyoming Still Has Not Increased Access to Affordable Health Coverage

Cheyenne, Wyo. – Today marks 12 years since the historic passage of the Affordable Care Act, and yet roughly 24,000 Wyoming residents remain uninsured, denied coverage by state lawmakers who refuse to increase access to Medicaid. Wyoming is one of only 12 states that has not increased access to health insurance coverage through their Medicaid programs despite overwhelming evidence that doing so would improve health outcomes, reduce health disparities, and benefit the state’s economy. Despite excellent momentum and bipartisan support from many ...

HELP Committee Vote Represents Major Progress Toward Comprehensive Health Care Reform This Year

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- July 15, 2009 --  “Today’s vote in the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee to approve health care legislation represents major progress toward the goal shared by millions of families touched by cancer to enact comprehensive health ...

Quality Health Care Must Ensure Quality of Life for Patients with Chronic Disease

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- June 15, 2009 -- As Congress debates health care reform this year, it is important that legislation include measures to better coordinate care, improve access to palliative care and address ... palliative care which addresses patients’ physical, psychological, and emotional needs into treatment plans can help reduce overall health care spending by helping patients to articulate their goals of care, matching treatments to those goals, and eliminating unwanted and ...

Harry and Louise Return to Promote Health Care Reform in New Ad Campaign

Washington, D.C. -- August 19, 2008 -- Harry and Louise, the iconic couple featured in ads to defeat the Clinton health plan in 1993-1994, are back on television. This time they will lend their voice to strongly encourage health care reform. The new multi-million dollar ad campaign will air on national television throughout the Democratic and Republican conventions. ...

Our Nation's Health Depends on Access to Care: 10 Years of the ACA

... ACS CAN continues to support and advocate on behalf of people living with serious illnesses, like cancer, to ensure they have access to the care they need to protect their and their families’ health. Last week, we joined 28 other patient organizations to successfully work with Congress to pass legislation that would help protect ... spending, as Medicaid programs can play a key role in states’ ability to effectively respond to the current pandemic. In times of public health crises, ensuring people across the country have access to screening and treatment is of crucial importance. If there was ever a time to ...

Expanding and Protecting Access to Health Care is Key to Supporting Marginalized Communities

... patient advocates and friends to use this time to listen, learn and self-educate on the role we must serve to protect the well-being, safety and health of communities nationwide that continue to be marginalized by our society. In a recent win for one of these communities, we joined millions ... of inequity in our country . Central to that effort is ensuring individuals that have been and continue to be marginalized are able to access health care without fear of discrimination, bias or stigma. I know undoubtedly that addressing health disparities hinges on protecting the fundamental ...

Cancer Community Calls on Senate to Move Forward on Meaningful Health Care Reform

... and weeks of floor debate, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) is calling on senators to invoke cloture and pass health care reform legislation this year so that House and Senate conferees can begin working on a strong final product for patients. In a letter to ... of the American Cancer Society, said the proposed legislation includes a number of strong provisions that would significantly improve the health care system for cancer patients by refocusing the system to emphasize prevention; guaranteeing quality, affordable coverage regardless of ...

Georgia Legislative Session Ends with Future Opportunities for Increasing Access to Health Care

... Georgia legislative session, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) is optimistic for the future of increasing access to health coverage in the Peach State and reinforces its commitment to this effort. In reflection on the session, ACS CAN Managing Director of ... during the 2024 legislative session related to closing the coverage gap in Georgia. The state came the closest it’s ever come to bringing new health care access to more than 400,000 uninsured Georgians living in the gap. We thank the lawmakers who supported the creation of the health care ...

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