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... as we know it by converting it to a “premium support” model -– essentially a modified and yet-to-be defined voucher program limiting the care Medicare would cover. This could very adversely affect many cancer patients given that half of all new cancer diagnoses involve people over ... for cancer patients. An estimated 9 percent of adults and 25 percent of children with cancer are covered by Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Medicaid also provides treatment to low-income women diagnosed with cancer through the successful National Breast ... cancer screenings to millions of people who would not otherwise get them.   The resolution also proposes deep cuts in domestic spending for health care, some of which is likely to hit cancer research at the National Institutes of Health and cancer prevention and early detection programs ...