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Legislative Leaders, Public Health Officials Urge Passage of Measures To Combat Tobacco Use – Bills Will Save Lives, Protect Kids

TRENTON, NJ – The state and nation’s leading public health groups joined forces with Senate and Assembly leaders today to urge passage of bills that will vastly improve the state’s tobacco control ... The state has not allocated any state money to its tobacco control program since FY 2012, ranking it last among all states, year after year. The health coalition released a new report – “ Keeping the Promise: Comprehensive Tobacco Prevention and Cessation for New Jersey, A Win-Win ... Tobacco use remains the No. 1 cause of preventable death in New Jersey – killing 11,800 adults and costing the state over $4 billion in health care costs each year. Annually, 3,900 kids become new daily smokers. And 143,000 kids alive in New Jersey today will die prematurely from smoking ...

New study indicates medical debt associated with worse health status, underscoring importance of legislative proposals in New Jersey to alleviate financial burden of disease

... impact of disease on patients and families, a new study from the American Cancer Society (ACS) shows that medical debt is associated with worse health status, more premature deaths and higher mortality rates. Researchers with the ACS have found that medical debt was associated with more days of poor physical and mental health, more years of life lost and higher mortality rates for all-cause and leading causes of death at the county level in the United States. The ... affiliate, ACS CAN has successfully advocated for billions of dollars in cancer research funding, expanded access to quality affordable health care, and advanced proven tobacco control measures. We stand with our volunteers, working to make cancer a top priority for policymakers in cities, ...

February Update from Peter Slocum

FROM: Peter Slocum, Vice President of Advocacy NY & NJ Access to Care – Health Care Reform In the run-up to today's summit on health care reform, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) joined nine other national organizations in calling on Congress to ...

New Jersey Earns B in Pain Report

... the findings showed that while states have made considerable progress over the last decade in enacting policies that enhance access to pain care, including the use of pain medications, and minimizing potential treatment barriers, this progress has slowed, and in some states declined, in ... establish a system to mitigate drug abuse,” said David Woodmansee, associate director of state and local campaigns for ACS CAN. “Patients, health organizations, healthcare professionals, regulatory officials, licensing boards and policymakers all have a critical role to play to promote ... between 2013 and 2015, while six received worse grades than two years ago. The improvements that were seen are largely a result of state health care regulatory boards adopting policies to encourage appropriate pain management and state legislatures or regulatory agencies repealing ...

Ruling a Victory for Cancer Patients

... Affected by Cancer Trenton, NJ – June 28, 2012 – The U.S. Supreme Court today upheld the constitutionality of provisions of the Affordable Care Act that are critical to ensuring that people with cancer and other life-threatening chronic diseases can access quality, affordable health care. “The ruling is a victory for people with cancer and their families nationwide, who for decades have been denied health coverage, charged far more than they can afford for lifesaving care and forced to spend their life savings on necessary treatment, simply ...

Blair Horner Named VP for Advocacy

... Of Blair Horner As Vice President For Advocacy; Horner’s First Day On May 2nd. New York And New Jersey Needs To Place Establishment Of Health Exchanges As Top End-Of-Session Priority Albany, NY (April 14, 2011) – The American Cancer Society of New York and New Jersey today ... reduce cancer rates and to help those with cancer to get the treatment they need. One critical ACS goal is to ensure that cancer patients obtain health insurance, without which many cancer patients cannot survive. "When you talk about change and reform in Albany, you talk about Blair ... of state policymakers must be the creation of health exchanges.” Health exchanges are established under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). The exchange is a marketplace where individuals and small groups can purchase insurance that includes essential health care ...

ACS CAN Names Shott New Jersey State Government Relations Director

... this post, Shott will oversee advocacy efforts promoting evidence-based policy and legislative solutions designed to eliminate cancer as a major health problem. Shott comes to ACS CAN after serving as a Senior Program Manager for the State Health Reform Assistance Network and State Health and Value Strategies programs.  These two Robert Wood Johnson Foundation programs housed at Princeton University provide technical assistance to states in their implementation of the coverage provisions of the Affordable Care Act and efforts to improve population health and reform the delivery of health care services.  “New Jersey is facing crucial health care ...

March Advocacy Roundup

... D.C. to send a message to Congress that cancer patients cannot wait any longer for new livesaving treatments.  Joined by National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins, Seffrin and Armstrong called on Congress to commit to sustained federal funding for research and proven screening ... for the remainder of FY11 would cut the NIH budget by 5.2% and the CDC budget by 21%.  View the polling summary .    The Affordable Care Act Turns One Erin T. is a 24-year-old breast cancer patient living in New York City.  Prior to the Affordable Care Act, the only way for ... to get well.  Erin is grateful for the benefits of the Affordable Care Act that greatly improved her outlook on life.  One year after the new health care law, stories like Erin's are becoming more and more common, as key provisions are already improving the health care system for those ...

ACS CAN Analysis Shows Step Therapy Protocols Included in Commercial Plans in New Jersey

... would ensure that when step therapy is used in New Jersey it is safe for patients, clinically grounded, and transparent to patients and health care providers. Step therapy policies, also known as fail first, are used by health insurers to force patients to try medications that insurance companies choose, requiring the patient to “fail first” before gaining ...

February Advocacy Round Up

... year. The bill, which passed, cuts federal spending by almost $100 billion, and includes a 5% cut of $1.6 billion to the National Institutes of Health budget. The legislation also slashed the budget at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) by 21%, which includes cuts to ... in the Senate strategy, as we have very supportive Senators in both states, but we will keep you posted as the situation develops.  Affordable Care Act - New Threats, New Alliances In addition to cutting cancer research and prevention programs, HR1 was also used to block funding to pay ... CR passed that would greatly complicate the law’s implementation, including language affecting the development of regulations to govern the health benefit exchanges and determine the essential benefits package. Amendments also passed that would deny funding to enforce the new medical ...

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