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... have united to launch South Dakotans Decide Healthcare , an effort to let South Dakota voters determine if the state should expand Medicaid health care coverage to more than 42,000 of their fellow lower-income residents. The coalition—one of the broadest to ever launch a ballot measure in South Dakota—is collecting signatures statewide. South Dakota is one of 12 states that has not increased access to health care through Medicaid expansion. By offering coverage to individuals who make too much for Medicaid under the current eligibility ...

2/3/11 Below is this week’s update on the Affordable Care Act. As always, thank you for all you do every day to support laws and policies that help cancer patients and their families   Update on ... Act   As I informed you on Monday, a federal judge in Florida ruled that the requirement in the Affordable Care Act that all Americans purchase health insurance is unconstitutional. Two federal judges have upheld the so-called “individual responsibility” or “individual mandate” ... that enables the implementation of critical provisions of the law to continue across the country. Read or listen to the audio of Kaiser Health News’ Q&A with legal expert Stuart Taylor on the ruling.   Despite the absence of an injunction, some state officials have said the law ...

2/3/11 Below is this week’s update on the Affordable Care Act. As always, thank you for all you do every day to support laws and policies that help cancer patients and their families   Update on ... Act   As I informed you on Monday, a federal judge in Florida ruled that the requirement in the Affordable Care Act that all Americans purchase health insurance is unconstitutional. Two federal judges have upheld the so-called “individual responsibility” or “individual mandate” ... that enables the implementation of critical provisions of the law to continue across the country. Read or listen to the audio of Kaiser Health News’ Q&A with legal expert Stuart Taylor on the ruling.   Despite the absence of an injunction, some state officials have said the law ...

... CAN filed comments this week with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on the proposed Medicare regulation creating Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). ACOs, which were mandated in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), are groups of providers that receive bonus payments for ... more integrated and coordinated care for Medicare beneficiaries. ACS CAN’s comments acknowledge the potential of ACOs to improve the health and quality of care of cancer patients, and encourage the administration to improve the regulation to better benefit families affected by ... of palliative care services as an integral component of ACOs and other proposed models. The comments also recommend that the Department of Health and Human Services more carefully consider several patient-specific issues in the regulation, such as:       Enhancing patient ...