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... compensation for tobacco-related health care costs. Our legislators should be directing that money to programs that reduce smoking statewide. Of the millions of dollars collected in Missouri from tobacco taxes and tobacco settlement last year, less than one-tenth of 1 percent was spent on tobacco ... to tobacco. I am happy to see Missouri Gov. Mike Parson’s budget will maintain funding for statewide cancer prevention programs, but more can and should be done to reduce all forms of tobacco use and save more Missouri lives. Increased funding for tobacco prevention programs would be ...

Jefferson City, MO - “Today, the  Missouri Supreme court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit to force the state to implement Medicaid expansion. This action means that the state is required to allow eligible ... more likely to be diagnosed with cancer at later, more costly stages and are less likely to survive. By increasing access to Medicaid, Missouri can help ensure more individuals who currently lack affordable, comprehensive health insurance can gain coverage through Medicaid and access the ... for cancer. This year alone, 37,390 will hear the words “you have cancer” and 12,960 Missourians will pass away from cancer. None of them should suffer a day without the healthcare they need.”  ### About ACS CAN at 20  The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS ...

... in health care bills each year, but the state ranks 50 th in the nation in spending for tobacco cessation and prevention. With 63 percent of Missouri’s adults intending to quit in the next six months, woefully underfunded programs such as the Missouri Tobacco Quitline are in high ... Day at the Capitol will ask lawmakers to maintain general revenue funding for tobacco cessation in House Bill 10 through the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. Volunteers will also ask legislators to continue to support Show-Me Healthy Women. Now in its 25 th year, this state ... to Missouri’s low-income, uninsured and other medically underserved women. Nearly 90,000 women in the state qualify for this program. For ACS CAN volunteers Allison Johnson and Keith Whittemore, this day is personal: Johnson was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma at age 19 while at the ...

... the most effective cancer treatments takes effect on January 1, 2015. The new oral chemotherapy law will bring insurance coverage to both forms of chemotherapy – intravenous (IV) and pill (oral) form – requiring plans to have similar out-of-pocket costs for oral chemotherapy products if traditional chemotherapies are already covered. “Affordable access to FDA-approved oral ... medications will save countless lives for patients fighting cancer,” said Stacy Reliford, Missouri government relations director for ACS CAN. “Most oral treatments do not have IV substitutes. This new law ensures that patients will no longer be forced to absorb thousands of dollars ...