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Important Message From John Seffrin
Message From John Seffrin Meaningful health care reform is closer than ever to becoming a reality. Following decades in which the nation’s health care system has fallen further into decline, and after more than a year of debate in Congress, the effort to significantly improve our ...
This Week in Healthcare Reform!
Week Ending May 16th This week was one of the most important in the health care reform debate, with the president using his bully pulpit several times to promote the issue. On Monday, May 11, he met with executives from organizations representing health insurers, drug companies, hospitals, doctors, medical device makers, and unions. The participants pledged to find cost savings of up to $2 ...
December 2012 Monthly Advocacy Update
... by Dr. Richard Deming, a member of the ACS CAN Board, about his recent experiences hiking in the Himalayas with a group of cancer survivors and care givers. 2013 PREVIEW ACS CAN began 2013 by completing the process of integrating American Cancer Society Division advocacy into ACS CAN. ... up as the law moves closer to taking full effect in January 2014. Tobacco industry efforts to weaken and undermine measures that protect public health show no signs of abating. No doubt we have our work cut out for us, but ACS CAN is a nationally respected nonpartisan organization with a ... missions. In the coming year, ACS CAN will continue to call upon elected officials to work together in a bipartisan effort to implement the health care law as intelligently as possible for patients and their families. For further information, see the Department of Health and Human ...
November 2012 Monthly Advocacy Update
... fight against cancer. With the election behind us, it's time for our nation to renew its commitment to bringing cancer under control as a major health problem by adopting laws and policies that help people fight the disease. We're looking forward to working with lawmakers from both sides of the aisle on our priority issues so we can move closer to eliminating suffering and death from this devastating disease. ACCESS TO CARE - AFFORDABLE CARE ACT Post-Election Outlook Voters remain divided in their views of the Affordable Care Act according to exit polls , but President Obama's re-election virtually assures that implementation of provisions in the health reform law important to cancer patients and their families will continue. There is much work to be done leading up to the January 1, 2014 ...
ACS CAN Connecticut Policy Forum on The Future of Cancer Treatment: Ensuring Access and Affordability
... landscape. Participants include key stakeholders throughout the oncology community, including leaders in business, academia, public policy, health care systems, provider groups and advocacy. ACS CAN will use this event to help illustrate and explore the following questions: • What are ... will information technology and electronic record keeping play in improving access and affordability? • What will be the impact of national health care reform efforts on cancer patients? Panelists Jim Wadleigh – Chief Executive Officer at Access Health CT. Debra Polun – ...
January Monthly Advocacy Update
... in the future, Congress has been demonstrating increased support as evidenced by their increasing funding for the National Institutes of Health and National Cancer Institute budgets in the final 2012 fiscal year spending bill. During the speech, ACS CAN held its annual State of ... speech. Volunteers shared their personal stories and thoughts in the spirit of helping make cancer a national priority in 2012. AFFORDABLE CARE ACT Training Opportunity TODAY Today (Wednesday, February 8) at 2:00 pm ET, ACS CAN will host a webinar on the Affordable Care Act-created ... Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP). PCIP is a high risk pool for people with pre-existing conditions who are currently unable to obtain or afford health insurance. The program is temporary and unable to serve all in need, but it does serve as an important first step to unlocking the health ...
November Monthly Advocacy Update
AFFORDABLE CARE ACT UPDATE For more information, visit http://fightcancer.org/healthcare . Consumer Brochure Now in Print A few weeks ago I informed ... The guide, which also discusses provisions of the law as they apply to the Society’s original “4 A’s” that define meaningful health coverage – adequacy, affordability, availability, and administrative simplicity – is part of ACS CAN’s and the Society’s continuing ... Testify About “Mini-Med” Policies The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee held a hearing on December 1 on limited-benefit health plans, also known as “mini-med” policies. Steve Finan, ACS CAN’s senior director of policy, and ACS CAN volunteer Eugene Melville of ...
January 2012 Monthly Advocacy Update
... Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP), at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention using funds from the Prevention and Public Health Fund. The Prevention Fund is meant to refocus the nation's health care on early detection and disease prevention through innovative and integrated methods at the federal, state and local levels. Using these monies ...
The Future of Cancer Care: The Role of Innovation in Connecticut
... public policy forum on September 20, 2018 at the Pond House Cafe in West Hartford. The goal is to create a dialogue for leaders in business, health care, academia, public policy, patient advocacy, as well as other stakeholders to analyze and discuss how Connecticut can best position itself to ... discoveries. Participants include key stakeholders throughout the oncology community, including leaders in business, academia, public policy, health care systems, provider groups, advocacy, and others. ACS CAN will use this event to help illustrate and explore the following questions: ...
March 2011 Monthly Advocacy Update
... threat to the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP). The bill also cuts the budget at the National Institutes of Health by 5.2 percent. The Patient Navigator program at the Health Resource Services Administration is completely eliminated. With Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) refusing to bring up the House ... the benefits of strong federal investments in biomedical research funding. Read a feature about George in the Catonsville Times . AFFORDABLE CARE ACT Amendments Defund Affordable Care Act In addition to the severe cuts to cancer research and prevention program described above, the ...