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Proposed Legislation Gives Cancer Patients Improved Access to Treatments
Missouri Coalition for Cancer Treatment Access, Wednesday, January 15, 2014: On behalf of thousands of Missouri cancer patients, survivors and their families, the Missouri Coalition for Cancer Treatment Access, applauds the proposed ... of life for our patients and their caregivers, including the convenience of not having to travel several times a week for IV infusions that can take several hours each time,” said Debbie Kersting, Executive Director, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society – Gateway Chapter. This ... because oral cancer drugs in Missouri are covered as a pharmacy benefit, patients can be charged high co-insurances, up to 50 percent of the cost of the therapy, even if the oral drugs are the only treatment available. This can result in out-of-pocket costs of hundreds to thousands of ...
Medicaid Expansion: Improving Access to Coverage, Detecting Cancers, Early, Saving More Lives.
... 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, ...
Moving Our Mission, One State at a Time
... the COVID-19 pandemic continues to dominate our daily lives and continuing the movement to highlight systemic racism. As patient advocates, we can add another “remarkable” to the list: within a five-week period this summer in two states where elected officials had been resistant, ... was accomplished: These mark the fifth and sixth states since 2017 to pass Medicaid expansion via ballot measure, following in the footsteps of Maine, Idaho, Nebraska and Utah. Notably, policymakers in each of these states had historically been reluctant to expand access to care through Medicaid. By no means is a ballot measure always the most ...