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A Focus on the Patient: Ensuring Quality of Life for Cancer Patients
While the merits of comprehensive health care reform legislation are debated in the halls of Congress, ACS CAN urges lawmakers to keep patients' needs top of mind. That means including measures that improve communication between health professional and patients -- ensuring that cancer patients and care givers are involved in all aspects of the decision making process ...
It Just Won't Stop
... minute. Here are some more messages of support: Go get em! U have my support and prayers! The time for quality coverage is now Please support health care reform! I m a cancer survivor! You need to pass the health care reform, cancer affects so many Americans all over our country, make the right choice Please make health care reform your top priority ...
Guest Post: A Governor's Perspective
Last week, I was invited to speak about the realities of Massachusetts's health care reform at the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network's National Forum on the Future of Health Care in Washington, DC. Because our reform serves as the model for the Affordable Care Act, and because our experience is so often ...
Economic Downturn Impacts Access to Cancer Prevention and Treatment, According to New Poll
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- April 27, 2009 -- Four in ten Americans say they would not be able to afford all the treatment and care needed if they were suddenly diagnosed with cancer, and one in five Americans says they are likely to lose their health insurance in the next 12 months, according to a national bipartisan poll released today. The survey, conducted for the American Cancer ... voters said they would support access to affordable cancer screenings for all Americans, regardless of insurance status, as a way to improve our health care system. “Lack of access to quality, affordable health care is a barrier for far too many Americans, and is often a death sentence for ...
Wyoming Medicaid Expansion would benefit employers
Health-care costs and health-care insurance are on people’s minds in Wyoming. In late July, this forum hosted two writers on the pros and cons of Medicaid expansion. Their ...
ACS CAN volunteer invited to attend State of the Union address
... 17-year breast cancer survivor. She is attending the president’s State of the Union to highlight the importance of patient protections in the health care law. “It is a tremendous honor to be invited to attend the State of the Union address and to be able to use my voice to advocate for the quality, affordable health care that cancer patients and survivors need,” said Jacqueline. Jacqueline has been fortunate to receive health insurance through her ...
ACS CAN volunteer invited to attend the State of the Union address
... 17-year breast cancer survivor. She is attending the president’s State of the Union to highlight the importance of patient protections in the health care law. “It is a tremendous honor to be invited to attend the State of the Union address and to be able to use my voice to advocate for the quality, affordable health care that cancer patients and survivors need,” said Jacqueline. Jacqueline has been fortunate to receive health insurance through her ...
Patient Groups Urge U.S. Court of Appeals to Prevent Discrimination Against LGBTQ+ Patients
WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 3, 2023 — More than a dozen patient groups representing millions of Americans with serious and chronic health conditions are urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to preserve protections in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ+) patients receiving health care services in the case of Neese vs. Becerra . The groups filed an amicus brief in which they make clear that LGBTQ+ patients already ...
Medicaid Expansion: Improving Access to Coverage, Detecting Cancers, Early, Saving More Lives.
The Show-Me-State has an opportunity to provide nearly 260,000 working, low-income Missourians a path to affordable health care coverage. Right now, the Missouri General Assembly can take action to accept billions of dollars of federal money to assure that more hard-working Missouri families have access to affordable health care Coverage, including quality cancer care, through our Medicaid program. Learn More The federal government will pay 100% of the costs in ...
Great Minds Thinking Alike
Yesterday was an incredible day at ACS CAN we held our first-ever National Forum on the Future of Health Care and it was a huge success! The conference focused on how to ensure that people living with cancer and other chronic diseases have access to quality health care. It's a discussion that has grown in intensity since implementation of the Affordable Care Act began, and our forum brought ...
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