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... Senior Staff, ACS Advocacy Leaders, ACS Advocacy Personnel, Media Advocacy and ACS CAN Staff . Below is this week’s update on the Affordable Care Act. As always, thank you for all you do every day for cancer patients and their families. Medicaid Protections – Federal Medical Assistance ... returned to Washington, DC during their August recess to vote on the six-month extension of FMAP funding. The federal funding will protect state health programs and benefits for low-income cancer patients and families across the country.  The House passed H.R. 1586 247-to-161, and the ... ACS CAN senior director of Policy, will testify along with other consumer representatives at a hearing on the establishment of state based health exchanges. The NAIC is likely to develop model legislation for states, so the goal of the consumer representatives is to identify the key ...

... Senior Staff, ACS Advocacy Leaders, ACS Advocacy Personnel, Media Advocacy and ACS CAN Staff . Below is this week’s update on the Affordable Care Act. As always, thank you for all you do every day for cancer patients and their families. Medicaid Protections – Federal Medical Assistance ... returned to Washington, DC during their August recess to vote on the six-month extension of FMAP funding. The federal funding will protect state health programs and benefits for low-income cancer patients and families across the country.  The House passed H.R. 1586 247-to-161, and the ... ACS CAN senior director of Policy, will testify along with other consumer representatives at a hearing on the establishment of state based health exchanges. The NAIC is likely to develop model legislation for states, so the goal of the consumer representatives is to identify the key ...

... Presidents, ACS Advocacy Leaders, ACS Advocacy Personnel, Media Advocacy and ACS CAN Staff.   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.   Health Care Reform Repeal Bill and Replace Resolution Pass the House   The U.S. House of Representatives voted Wednesday night on legislation ( HR ... phase of its effort to dismantle the law. The House debated and voted on H Res. 9 , which calls on three House committees of jurisdiction for health care and the House Judiciary Committee to write and report out legislation that proposes changes to the law. The legislation passed 253-175, ...

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   Affordable ... 10 categories of benefits that must be covered, must be covered, and otherwise leaves the details for developing others to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop the rest through regulations. This week the Institute of Medicine (IOM), which was charged with ... meeting which will include two days of public hearings. The IOM is expected to complete its work by September. Read coverage from CQ and Kaiser Health News .     What goes into the essential benefits package is hugely important to cancer patients, going to the heart of adequacy of ...