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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.   National ... percentage insurers spend on benefits versus administrative costs, under the Affordable Care Act. The NAIC proposal now goes to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), who will in turn issue a federal regulation based on the proposal.   Read the NAIC press release .   This is ... Assistance Program Grants this week that will allow states to provide direct assistance to consumers with questions or concerns regarding their health insurance.   To date 35 states, four territories and the District of Columbia applied for and received grants to establish programs that ...

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.   National ... percentage insurers spend on benefits versus administrative costs, under the Affordable Care Act. The NAIC proposal now goes to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), who will in turn issue a federal regulation based on the proposal.   Read the NAIC press release .   This is ... Assistance Program Grants this week that will allow states to provide direct assistance to consumers with questions or concerns regarding their health insurance.   To date 35 states, four territories and the District of Columbia applied for and received grants to establish programs that ...

Federal Update           The Prevention and Public Health Fund is a major target in both the president's 2013 fiscal year (FY 2013) budget, and the payroll tax extension legislation that Congress is debating this week. The goal of the Fund is to refocus the health care system on early detection and disease prevention through innovative and integrated methods at the federal, state and local levels.   The ...

... D.C. -- March 27, 2009 -- Leaders from widely diverse national organizations today stressed their mutual commitment to reform of the nation’s health care system, calling it an “urgent, national necessity” that requires different stakeholders to cooperate in ways that they did not in previous ... pledged to work with lawmakers and each other to support the enactment of comprehensive reform this Congress. Through a process they called Health Reform Dialogue, the organizations began holding facilitated discussions six months ago in order to create a forum outside of the political ...