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House Energy & Commerce Committee Focuses on Strengthening Nation’s Health Care Law
... D.C.— The House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing today—the eleventh anniversary of the signing of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law—on several bills aimed at strengthening the ACA. The bills include funding for outreach and enrollment efforts, money for more navigators to help people find and select coverage, limiting access to short-term limited duration health plans, and bills to reduce premiums and encourage Medicaid expansion, among others. The hearing follows this month’s passage of the American Rescue Plan, which included numerous provisions to improve access and affordability to health coverage during the ongoing pandemic, including increased subsidies to cover the costs of marketplace health plans, financial support to ...
ACS CAN Submits Testimony on Policies to Reduce Health Disparities in Cancer Prevention, Diagnosis and Care
... Network (ACS CAN) submitted testimony today to the House Energy and Commerce Committee on the topic of racial and ethnic disparities in the health care system that often result in an unequal cancer burden. The hearing is focused on disparities in the overall health care system, as well as those around COVID-19. ACS CAN works on evidence-based public policies at all levels of government that seek to ...
House Introduces Health Equity Bill Critical to Reducing Health Disparities and Fighting Chronic Disease
Washington, D.C. -- Legislation introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives today aims to improve access to quality health care for and decrease health disparities in communities of color. The Health Equity and Accountability Act (HEAA) of 2022 provides a comprehensive set of strategic ...
President’s FY 22 Budget Focuses on Health Issues; Boosts Biomedical Research, Makes Permanent Increased Health Coverage Subsidies
... released its budget for FY 22 late last week. Included in the budget is an additional $9 billion in funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), including $6.5 for the creation of a new department within the NIH called the Advanced Research Project Agency on Health (ARPA-H), which would be dedicated to accelerating the pace of biomedical research for rare and difficult to treat diseases, including ... and we would urge lawmakers to adequately fund these programs as part of the Center’s $8.7 billion budget.” Access “Affordable health care is essential for cancer patients, survivors and all those at risk for the disease. Making marketplace health plans more affordable through ...
Oklahoma Becomes 37th State to Increase Access to Health Coverage Through Medicaid
OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahomans approval of Medicaid expansion will improve health outcomes and reduce cancer disparities for 2 00,000 citizens now eligible for health care coverage. On Tuesday, a majority of voters responded "yes" to Question 802, which asked if Medicaid should be fully expand ed to ...
Public Health Organizations Urge U.S. Supreme Court to Protect the Rights of People with Medicaid Coverage
... across the nation will file an amicus curiae - or friend of the court - brief today urging the U.S. Supreme Court to protect access to quality health care for individuals with Medicaid health coverage. Historically, Medicaid beneficiaries have had the ability to sue to protect their Medicaid rights, and these organizations argue ...
Survey: Half of Cancer Patients and Survivors Report Incurring Cancer-Related Medical Debt; Over 70% Are Worried About Affording Care
WASHINGTON, D.C.— The cost of cancer care is substantially impacting the lives of cancer patients and survivors, forcing them to make significant lifestyle changes, and causing some to ... have to zero out their savings or take out a loan with long-term consequences to save their lives. We need lawmakers to pass policies that make health care more affordable, and we need them to do so now.” Policies that could improve patient affordability include making increased subsidies to purchase marketplace health coverage permanent, expanding Medicaid in the 12 states that have yet to do so, and capping Medicare out-of-pocket prescription drug costs, ...
President Biden Doubles Down on His Call to End Cancer as We Know It in State of the Union Address
... Moonshot goal a reality,” said Dr. Karen E. Knudsen, CEO of ACS and ACS CAN. “We were pleased to hear the President again call on lawmakers, health care providers, the cancer community at large and the American people to join together in this mission. By accelerating discovery, improving access ... with the administration outlining policy changes that would help bring the US closer to the President’s goal, including increasing access to health coverage through Medicaid expansion, increasing funding for cancer research at the NIH and NCI, appropriating additional funding for a new ...
Survivor Views: Majority of Cancer Patients & Survivors Have or Expect to Have Medical Debt
... their cancer for more than three years. Nearly all (98%) were insured at the time when the debt was incurred, most commonly by a high deductible health plan without a health savings account (34%). The health implications are significant: those with cancer-related medical debt are three times more likely to be ... cancer screenings (18% vs 5%), 27% of those with cancer-related medical debt have gone without adequate food, and 25% have skipped or delayed care. The financial consequences of cancer-related medical debt can also be significant: nearly half (49%) saw their credit scores decrease and 30% ...
Congress Prioritizes Cancer Research with $2.5 Billion Increase for NIH and $408 Million for NCI in FY 2023 Budget
... released a proposed FY 2023 funding deal that includes an increase of $2.5 billion for biomedical research funding at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), $408 million more for cancer research at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and provides a funding boost to cancer prevention programs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Office on Smoking and Health. The deal also includes a 5-year extension of additional federal funding for Medicaid in Puerto Rico and a permanent extension of additional ... early detection tests once the Food and Drug Administration approves their use and clinical benefit is shown or improve access to palliative care. A statement from Lisa Lacasse, president of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) follows: Cancer Research “Cancer ...