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3-24-11 Affordable Care Act Update

One Year Later: Provisions of the Law Already Helping Cancer Patients   Timed to coincide with yesterday’s one-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, ACS CAN launched the Affordable Care Act Quiz , a new, interactive tool that can be found on fightcancer.org . This short, educational quiz tests your ...

3-24-11 Affordable Care Act Update

One Year Later: Provisions of the Law Already Helping Cancer Patients   Timed to coincide with yesterday’s one-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, ACS CAN launched the Affordable Care Act Quiz , a new, interactive tool that can be found on fightcancer.org . This short, educational quiz tests your ...

3-24-11 Affordale Care Act Update

One Year Later: Provisions of the Law Already Helping Cancer Patients   Timed to coincide with yesterday’s one-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, ACS CAN launched the Affordable Care Act Quiz , a new, interactive tool that can be found on fightcancer.org . This short, educational quiz tests your ...

2-5-10-This Week in Health Care Reform

... reform legislation forward.   As always, we remain committed to securing meaningful health care reform in this Congress to address the needs of cancer patients and their families.   GRASSROOTS UPDATE   ACS CAN is keeping up the pressure on legislators, urging them to finish the job on meaningful health care reform.   Earlier this week, we began ... patch-through calls to targeted Senators – Democrat, Republican and Independent - and completed 744 patch-throughs in just the first two days of calling. We expect this rate to greatly increase as we continue calls for the next two weeks.   On Tuesday, ACS CAN hosted its monthly State ...

6-9-11 Affordable Care Act Update

Federal Update   ACS 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 delivering 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 ...

6-9-11 Affordable Care Act Update

Federal Update   ACS 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 delivering 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 ...

6-9-11 Affordable Care Act Update

Federal Update   ACS 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 delivering 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 ...

Cancer Patients, Survivors to Congress: Make Cancer a National Priority

... survivors and their loved ones from all 50 states and nearly every congressional district are on Capitol Hill this week to ask their members of Congress to make the fight against cancer a national priority. The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) is hosting its annual Leadership Summit and Lobby Day to urge lawmakers to protect funding for cancer research and prevention programs, endorse legislation that supports patients ' quality of life and ensure lifesaving colon cancer screenings are affordable for seniors. Science has made major advances in the way cancer is prevented, ...

2020 Idaho Legislative Wrap Up

Idaho’s 2020 legislative session has come to an end. While the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) did not have a major legislative victory during the session, there is certainly a lot of positive news that we can report.  The session ended with growing concern about COVID-19 and our daily lives have certainly changed as a result ... request.  The legislature discussed, but ultimately did not act on proposals to require counties to help fund the state’s share of the cost to expand the Medicaid program. Idaho is still awaiting feedback from the federal government on the proposal to add work and related reporting ...

American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network Warns That Bill Threatening Access to Cancer Screenings is Fatally Flawed

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- May 10, 2006 -- The American Cancer Society Cancer Action NetworkSM (ACS CAN) today cautioned the U.S. Senate that the Health Insurance Market Modernization and Affordability Act (S. 1955) is fatally flawed and cannot be ... the damage this bill would cause, such amendments do not fully redress the flaws in the legislation and consumers would still be at risk of losing important cancer-related protections such as guaranteed insurance coverage of colorectal cancer screenings and clinical trial ... protections. Should it come before the Senate as an amendment to S. 1955, we encourage your support for this legislation as a way to lower the cost of health insurance without jeopardizing crucial patient protections already in place. Thank you for taking cancer patients and their ...

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