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... coalition gathered Wednesday afternoon to oppose work requirements for Medicaid which is currently being considered by the Utah Department of Health and Human Services.  During a public hearing, Brook Carlisle, ACS CAN Utah Government Relations Director explained to DHHS officials how ... including cancer patients, recent survivors, and those with other chronic illnesses could find that they are ineligible for the lifesaving care and treatment services provided through the Medicaid program,” said Carlisle.  More than 352,000 Utahns currently rely on Medicaid for health insurance and children account for nearly half of that figure.   Work requirements currently being considered by DHHS could lead to tens of ...

... to mark up their budget resolution for Fiscal Year 2025. It contains significant cuts in discretionary spending that would threaten critical health care programs, such as Medicaid, that are essential to cancer patients and their families. The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network ... such cuts in a statement for the record submitted to the committee. The statement reads in part: “Medicaid is the critical state–federal health insurance program that serves millions of the most economically vulnerable Americans – including over 37 million children – many ...

... 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 ...

... over 40 percent of North Carolinians who fall within the gap,” added Montgomery. “At such a pivotal moment in the fight and within public health at-large, it’s time we take strong, meaningful action to help ensure individuals have access to the care they need.” Conversations around Medicaid expansion circulated halls of the Capitol much of last year, with support from lawmakers on both ... introduced a special committee of lawmakers dedicated to more thoroughly looking at legislation to do so. “I went two years without health insurance after my diagnosis. Not only was maintaining my care and paying for medications extremely challenging for me, but it took a ...