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Robbinsdale Resident Addresses Cancer Care Costs in Congressional Briefing
Robbinsdale, MN – The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) hosted a virtual Congressional briefing today featuring policy and advocacy experts that addressed details in ACS CAN’s newly released report , “The Costs of Cancer: 2020 Edition.” The briefing comes just one day before the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments in California v. Texas to evaluate ... with pre-existing conditions including cancer. Speakers discussed the potential impact of the outcome of the case could influence health care cost and insurance coverage in the United States, as well as what Congress can do to ensure cancer patients have access to quality and affordable ...
2025 ACS CAN Minnesota Legislative Priorities
In 2025, more than 37,000 Minnesotans will hear the words ‘you have cancer.’ The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) is committed to making sure all Minnesotans have a fair and just opportunity to prevent, find, treat, and survive cancer. In 2025, ACS CAN will work with the Minnesota state legislature in support of the following priorities: Ensuring Access to Quality Care Fertility Preservation: Some cancer treatments can cause infertility, and as a result, ... many life altering decisions in a short amount of time. One of those decisions included fertility preservation. I was completely unaware of the cost, whether or not my insurance would cover it, and if I even had time to successfully complete the process. If my insurance would have covered ...
Diverse Group of More Than 50 Organizations Demand Plan for Health Care Access Fund
... in a letter to lawmakers to show support for maintaining the Health Care Access Fund. “This funding is critical to the health and wellbeing of so many vulnerable Minnesotans,” said Emily Myatt, ACS CAN Minnesota interim government relations director. “We can’t cross our fingers and hope for the best. We need to find a way to cover these ... Minnesotans depend on public health care programs that are funded in part by the Health Care Access Fund. The provider tax is the largest source of revenue to the Health Care Access Fund but is scheduled to sunset in December 2019. Allowing the provider tax to expire without identifying ...
Governor Walz Signs Legislation to Increase Access to Innovative Testing that Can Match Patients with Most Effective Treatments
... it. The new law will enable more Minnesotans to benefit from biomarker testing, a critical step in accessing precision medicine treatments that can lead to fewer side effects, improved survival, better quality of life and potentially lower costs for cancer patients. Dubbed ‘the right treatment, at the right time,’ precision medicine has played a ... as gene mutations, which can be measured in biospecimens like tissue. “I was diagnosed with metastatic stage IV lung cancer in 2021. Because of biomarker testing and the targeted treatment that it led to, I am currently cancer free. Every patient, every oncologist and every affected ...
Minnesota House Committee Advances Bill for Increased Access to Tobacco Cessation Treatment and Medications
Eagan, Minn. — Today, the House Preventive Health Policy Division voted in favor of advancing House File 3153, which would ensure that Medicare Assistance and MinnesotaCare enrollees have insurance coverage for individual, group and telephone counseling, as well as all FDA-approved tobacco cessation medications without cost-sharing or other barriers. The bill would also expand the types of trained providers that can be reimbursed for providing tobacco treatment counseling. Minnesotans for a Smoke-Free Generation, a coalition that supports policies that help ...
Cancer Advocates Urge Lawmakers to Help Reduce the Cancer Burden on Minnesotans
Eagan, Minn. – As we dive into a new legislative session, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) prompts legislators to prioritize passing public policies that promote cancer prevention, improve patient quality of life, prevent youth commercial tobacco use and help adults quit tobacco, and expand equitable access to quality, affordable health care. ... ensuring more Minnesotans have access to individual, group, and telephone counseling and all FDA-approved tobacco cessation medications without cost-sharing or other barriers to accessing care. End the Sale of Flavored Tobacco Products: The tobacco industry uses menthol, other candy- and ...
Elk River representative introduces bill to improve palliative care statewide
... care focuses on patients’ goals for their lives, first and foremost, and then designs treatments to match those goals. We need to see more of that at every level and setting of care, and an advisory council is a low cost way for us to figure out where policy can help.” Palliative care is a specialty that provides an extra layer of support to relieve the pain, symptoms and stress of serious illness, ...
Duluth News Tribune: Wrong to require those on Medicaid to work
Reader's View: Wrong to require those on Medicaid to work The side effects of cancer treatments can be horrendous: Fatigue, nausea, lymphedema, neuropathy, low blood counts, infections are just some. When cancer patients have to take time off ... comply is wrong. Taking coverage away from cancer survivors and other patients who are unable to go back to their normal work routine because of debilitating effects of their treatment is irresponsible and short-sighted. As a cancer survivor myself, I called to urge my Sen. Tom Bakk and ...
Advocates commend Gov for investing in prevention
... includes $40 million for Statewide Health Improvement Program ST. PAUL, Minn. (January 22, 2013) – Governor Dayton prioritized the health of Minnesotans today by including $40 million for the Statewide Health Improvement Program (SHIP) in his budget recommendations. “Governor ... current amount serving SHIP communities and is a tremendous step toward ensuring a statewide program,” praised Britta Orr, Executive Director of the Local Public Health Association – t he lead organization in a broad coalition of SHIP supporters. SHIP works to improve health by ... and more physical activity, and by avoiding tobacco. Local communities implement research-based strategies such as adding sidewalks so people can walk more, bringing fresh local produce from farms to area schools, and helping employers introduce workplace programs to assist employees in ...
Governor Walz Addresses Minnesota’s Health Crisis
... and the administration addressed the youth tobacco-use crisis and announced an aggressive campaign to combat it. In response to the announcement of this campaign, Emily Myatt, Minnesota government relations director for American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) released the following statement. “ACS CAN is deeply concerned about Minnesota’s dramatic increase in youth e-cigarette use and is ... “Every year 2,584 Minnesotans die from smoking-attributable cancer. The tobacco industry has targeted Minnesota’s kids, communities of color and the LGBTQ+ community. Minnesota’s legislature has an opportunity to pass bold policies that protect Minnesotans from the ...