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Iowa Legislators’ Medicaid Cuts Threaten Cancer Care for 180,000 Iowans

... crisis. Iowa Medicaid serves as a lifeline for many workers, veterans, and our rural hospitals. Cutting Medicaid expansion puts the critical health care for 180,000 Iowans at risk. Iowa lawmakers must do better.”  0 Statement from American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) Iowa Government Relations Director, Jackie Cale Iowa Legislators’ Medicaid Cuts Threaten Cancer Care for 180,000 Iowans ...

Alternative Medicaid Financing Proposals Could Jeopardize Cancer Care; Increase States’ Medicaid Costs

... 4, 2017 —States would likely face increased costs and cancer patients and survivors could face delayed preventive, diagnostic and curative care under alternative Medicaid financing models being considered by Congress. The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) today ... enrollees.” Unlike the current system, fixed federal payments would not adjust automatically to account for increased enrollment, unexpected health emergencies or the cost of new breakthrough treatments. Instead, such financing would shift the cost to states, which would then likely ... grants and per capita caps raise serious issues about Medicaid’s ability to offer low-income Americans quality, affordable and comprehensive health care coverage, particularly for those suffering from cancer,” said Hansen. “We want governors as well as Congress to carefully consider ...

Governor Reynolds Signs Medicaid Cuts, Disastrous for 180,000 Iowans

DES MOINES, Iowa   – Today, Governor Reynolds signed a bill that threatens to repeal Medicaid expansion – putting critical health care for more than 180,000 Iowans at risk. This law will do grave harm to the health and well-being of our state. Iowa Medicaid serves as a lifeline for many workers, veterans and our rural hospitals.   Medicaid expansion, ...

Patient advocacy organizations oppose bill that threatens to repeal Iowa Medicaid expansion

Our organizations represent thousands of patients and their families facing serious health conditions and are committed to ensuring they have adequate, affordable, and accessible health care coverage at every stage of life. We are deeply concerned by HSB248/SF363. This proposal threatens to repeal Medicaid expansion – putting ...

Medicaid and Cancer

... in the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.   If you qualify for Medicaid, you’re one cancer diagnosis from financial hardship. Medicaid is health care and cancer care for 677,000 low-income Iowans, so I can’t understand why Rep. Ashley Hinson is talking about cutting Medicaid. Our state’s cancer rates are the fastest rising, and with this crisis, health coverage is so important. I know this on a personal level as an eight-year breast cancer survivor. Diagnosed at just 39 with two young ...

Easy ways YOU can help our campaigns

... can get involved in our efforts to protect Medicaid.  The U.S. Senate is expected to vote on the budget bill that cuts Medicaid and makes health insurance costs more expensive for everyone as soon as the week of June 23rd. We need your help to try to protect Medicaid and affordable health care. Please take these four actions: SEND YOUR U.S. SENATOR AN EMAIL VIA OUR ACTION ALERT Use this link to send an email to your U.S. Senator and ...

2025 State Legislative Priorities

... cancer requires bold new public policies that promote cancer prevention, early detection of cancer, and expand access to quality, affordable health care. Lawmakers make many decisions that impact the lives of Iowans impacted by cancer and their leadership is vital to defeating this disease. In ... Network (ACS CAN) will work with the Iowa General Assembly on legislative and regulatory efforts that provide affordable, adequate access to health insurance including Medicaid, ensure adequate funding for lifesaving cancer screening and prevention programs, and enact ...

ACS CAN Applauds Iowa Legislature for Passing Budget that Prioritizes Cancer Prevention

... death in the U.S. In fact, smoking leads to a third of all cancer deaths in our country.  Smoking currently costs Iowa close to $1.3 billion in health care costs each year and claims more than 5,100 lives each year. “While smoking rates have declined in Iowa over the last decade, we’re seeing ... has become even more important as unemployment rates surge as a result of the pandemic and Iowans continue to lose their employer sponsored health coverage. “Early detection is truly a matter of life or death for the more than 2,700 Iowa women who will be diagnosed with breast or ...

Expand Access to Biomarker Testing in Iowa

... testing will enable more patients to access the most effective treatments for their disease and can potentially help achieve the triple aim of health care: better health outcomes, improved quality of life and reduced costs.  This legislation will ensure Iowans covered by Medicaid and state regulated ...

Iowa cancer patients shouldn't be at risk of losing Medicaid

... about it?   Instead of adopting the policies we know will reduce cancer rates, the Iowa Legislature is trying to separate people from their health insurance. A short-sighted bill, House File  613 ,  would add work requirements to Medicaid coverage and add layers of administrative red ... between Iowans and their doctors. That’s not acceptable for the  20,460 Iowans who will be diagnosed with cancer this year . Medicaid is the health insurance that tens of thousands of Iowans depend on to detect and treat major illnesses like cancer. At the American Cancer Society Cancer ... like those in this bill, have led to thousands of people losing their Medicaid coverage. For a patient who is mid-treatment, a loss of health care coverage could seriously jeopardize their chance of survival.   Medicaid work requirements could hinder access to lifesaving preventive ...

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