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Fighting for Prevention Funds

The phrase "an ounce of prevention saves lives and money" means a lot to me and my family. My wife and I are diligent about talking with our doctors and ensuring we are ... activity, support tobacco-free living and improve prevention services in low-income and underserved communities. The fact is prevention is a cost saving measure. By focusing on the health of people before they get sick, we can actually save money because we won't be treating their diseases at later stages. The fund has been threatened numerous times by the White House ...

House Subcommittee Budget Proposal Resurrects Barriers to Care and Flat Funds Cancer Research Programs

WASHINGTON, D.C. July 18, 2012 -People with cancer and their families are disappointed that appropriators in the U.S. House of Representatives plan to flat line cancer research and eliminate funding for critical programs that would improve access to chronic disease ... advances in early detection and treatment of cancer are completely dependent on consistent funding for research that keeps up with the growing cost of medical research and leverages past progress. This bill fails to keep pace and puts the continued preeminence of American leadership in ... and treatment of chronic diseases like cancer. Resurrecting barriers to care by defunding grants to help set up marketplaces where people can shop and compare options for quality coverage and stripping funding for the Prevention and Public Health Fund which is refocusing the nation on ...

Interim Rule on äóÖGrandfathered ' Plans Provides Strong Protections for Patients

Statement of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) Washington, D.C. – June 14, 2010 – The Obama administration today released an interim final rule detailing which health care plans will be exempt from certain provisions of the Affordable Care Act. The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), the advocacy affiliate of the American Cancer Society, had ...

A Patient Voice in Health Care Reform

As the leading patient group in the health care debate, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network SM (ACS CAN) continues to work to ensure that the voices of cancer patients, survivors, and their loved ones are heard. This week, 15 cancer patients and their caregivers came to Washington, D.C., for a ... needed now, not later.  The cancer advocates had contacted the American Cancer Society’s Health Insurance Assistance Service (HIAS), and some of them were featured in the February report by the Society and the Kaiser Family Foundation titled, “Spending to Survive: Cancer Patients ...

How Does Your State Measure Up on Policies to Fight Cancer?

Unfortunately, for most of you the answer to the question above is Š—“not well.Š— According to a new edition of the ACS CAN report How Do You Measure Up? released today, many state legislatures are missing opportunities to enact laws and policies that ...

Gov. Christie Signs Oral Chemo Bill

Coverage of Chemotherapy Pills Means More Choice for Cancer Patients Statement from Blair Horner,Vice President for Advocacy, American Cancer Society of NY ... of bill to guarantee price parity for orally administered chemotherapy treatments “Many new chemotherapy drugs come in pill form that patients can take at home, rather than intravenous injections administered at a medical facility. In New Jersey, there can be a big difference in the ... quarter of the nearly 500 cancer drugs in the pipeline today are being developed in pill form. This law will ensure cancer patients that the cost of orally administered chemotherapies is not more expensive than traditional intravenous chemotherapy (S.1834A /A.2666). Oral chemotherapies ...

COVID19: Patient advocates speak out against increasingly restrictive health insurance processes amid pandemic

... issue goes much deeper than our present environment. Prior authorization and step therapy are often applied to patients living with a wide range of diseases and chronic conditions, like, cancer, diabetes, HIV/AIDS, heart disease, arthritis, and multiple sclerosis. A practice that started as ... to the drug, test, or treatment option that was recommended by their physician. “We must consider long term solutions for the delays that can be caused by prior authorization and step therapy, not just a temporary fix. If these practices can be curbed for COVID-19, they should be ... are already fighting for our lives. We cannot afford to wait on insurers to approve tests or treatments ordered by doctors. Those delays can cost us precious, life-saving time.” According to a recent survey of physicians by the American Medical Association, the negative impact of ...

Advocacy in Action: Critical Loophole Plugged

On Friday, ACS CAN let its voice be heard raising the issue of an alarming loophole included in the Senate version of the health care reform legislation. Specific language would limit annual caps on benefits for patients of chronic disease such as cancer who are struggling with the high cost of care. This dangerous loophole could subject cancer patients to abrupt termination of care. And on Friday, the White House and Congress ...

Let's Screen New York Action Center

  The Let’s #ScreenNY campaign is a statewide coalition of patient advocacy groups, health systems, community organizations, individuals, policymakers, and others who are committed to helping ensure that all New Yorkers get back to regular cancer screening. Visit our homepage for more information. Ways you can make a meaningful impact in this campaign and take action are listed in this web page. Sign up for the Let’s #ScreenNY campaign Share your ... (CSP). The CSP provides low income and uninsured New Yorkers access to life saving breast, cervical and colorectal cancer screenings at no cost. Colorectal Cancer Screening Bill - When it comes to colon cancer screenings, some choose to have a less invasive procedure. But what happens ...

Polling Shows Strong Public Support for Accepting Federal Funds to Increase Access to Care Through Medicaid

... to expand their Medicaid programs. It's up to each state to make the decision for itself. Since the ruling by the high court, a geographic mix of states have been wrestling with the decision of whether to make health coverage under Medicaid available to individuals and families under 133 percent of the federal poverty level, as urged by ... We're hopeful that states still grappling with the decision will recognize the significant impact that expanding the number of people who can receive Medicaid coverage would have on low-income people suffering from serious illnesses such as cancer. That's why ACS CAN conducted a poll ...

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