Site Search

Share

X

Search Results

7-8-10 Affordable Care Act Update

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. FDA Takes First ... appointment will expire at the end of the next session of Congress. Read the July 6, 2010 New York Times Article: Obama to Bypass Senate to Name Health Official . CDC Releases Vital Signs The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a new report this week, Vital Signs , ... full report can be found at: http://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/ .   Liz Ward, the American Cancer Society’s vice president of surveillance and health policy research, is quoted in the Associated Press story on the report: Colon Cancer Screenings Up, Breast Rate Stalled .   Christopher W. ...

8-25-11 Affordable Care Act Update

Affordable Care Act and the Budget   While Congress remains in recess until after Labor Day, members of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, or ... weeks, you can expect to see updated messaging and strategies as it relates to this committee.    New Report Shows Unemployed Skipping Out on Health Care   With unemployment rates still high, many jobless Americans are opting out of important medical services according to a new Commonwealth Fund report . The study found that 72 percent of those who have lost employer-sponsored health insurance have not filled prescriptions, did not get recommended tests, or avoided seeing a doctor because of the high cost barrier.   ...

8-25-11 Affordable Care Act Update

  Affordable Care Act and the Budget   While Congress remains in recess until after Labor Day, members of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, or ... weeks, you can expect to see updated messaging and strategies as it relates to this committee.    New Report Shows Unemployed Skipping Out on Health Care   With unemployment rates still high, many jobless Americans are opting out of important medical services according to a new Commonwealth Fund report . The study found that 72 percent of those who have lost employer-sponsored health insurance have not filled prescriptions, did not get recommended tests, or avoided seeing a doctor because of the high cost barrier.   ...

8-25-11 Affordable Care Act Update

  Affordable Care Act and the Budget   While Congress remains in recess until after Labor Day, members of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, or ... weeks, you can expect to see updated messaging and strategies as it relates to this committee.    New Report Shows Unemployed Skipping Out on Health Care   With unemployment rates still high, many jobless Americans are opting out of important medical services according to a new Commonwealth Fund report . The study found that 72 percent of those who have lost employer-sponsored health insurance have not filled prescriptions, did not get recommended tests, or avoided seeing a doctor because of the high cost barrier.   ...

8-25-11 Affordable Care Act Update

  Affordable Care Act and the Budget   While Congress remains in recess until after Labor Day, members of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, or ... weeks, you can expect to see updated messaging and strategies as it relates to this committee.     New Report Shows Unemployed Skipping Out on Health Care   With unemployment rates still high, many jobless Americans are opting out of important medical services according to a new Commonwealth Fund report . The study found that 72 percent of those who have lost employer-sponsored health insurance have not filled prescriptions, did not get recommended tests, or avoided seeing a doctor because of the high cost barrier.   ...

7-27-12 Affordable Care Act Update

Federal Update   ACS CAN released a first-of-its kind report yesterday that highlights some of the Prevention and Public Health Fund's many successes in communities across the country. The report, Staying Well: Real Stories from the Prevention and Public Health Fund , profiles lifesaving programs in 17 states and communities that have benefited from the Prevention Fund, created by Congress in 2010 as part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Since the enactment of the ACA, the fund has supported evidence-based programs that are increasing access to proven disease ...

7-27-12 Affordable Care Act Update

Federal Update   ACS CAN released a first-of-its kind report yesterday that highlights some of the Prevention and Public Health Fund's many successes in communities across the country. The report, Staying Well: Real Stories from the Prevention and Public Health Fund , profiles lifesaving programs in 17 states and communities that have benefited from the Prevention Fund, created by Congress in 2010 as part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Since the enactment of the ACA, the fund has supported evidence-based programs that are increasing access to proven disease ...

7-27-12 Affordable Care Act Update

Federal Update   ACS CAN released a first-of-its kind report yesterday that highlights some of the Prevention and Public Health Fund's many successes in communities across the country. The report, Staying Well: Real Stories from the Prevention and Public Health Fund , profiles lifesaving programs in 17 states and communities that have benefited from the Prevention Fund, created by Congress in 2010 as part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Since the enactment of the ACA, the fund has supported evidence-based programs that are increasing access to proven disease ...

10-20-11 Affordable Care Act Update

Federal Update            CLASS Act   Last week the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that the CLASS Act, enacted as part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), would not be implemented. The CLASS Act (Community Living and Assisted Support Services) was intended to be a voluntary, long-term ... 10 years. That figure has now been reduced to approximately $73 billion in reductions with the cancellation of the CLASS Act.     Critics of health care reform argue that the termination of the CLASS program is the beginning of the ACA’s unraveling. That claim is strongly misleading. ...

10-20-11 Affordable Care Act Update

Federal Update            CLASS Act   Last week the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that the CLASS Act, enacted as part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), would not be implemented. The CLASS Act (Community Living and Assisted Support Services) was intended to be a voluntary, long-term ... 10 years. That figure has now been reduced to approximately $73 billion in reductions with the cancellation of the CLASS Act.     Critics of health care reform argue that the termination of the CLASS program is the beginning of the ACA’s unraveling. That claim is strongly misleading. ...

Type

Priority Issue

State

Policy Issue

Judicial Advocacy