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For the 3,170 Wyomingites who will be diagnosed with cancer in 2023, access to affordable, comprehensive care is essential to detecting, treating and surviving cancer. Today, more than 33,000 Wyoming residents live with cancer at some stage of treatment or survivorship. Providing individuals and families access to affordable, comprehensive health care coverage is critical in the fight against cancer . A recent poll shows that over two thirds of Wyoming voters across politcal parties ... and who can’t afford it through the Healthcare Marketplace. When she found out she had stage-four cancer, Myra worried not only about her health and how to stay alive to care for her family, but also about the crippling financial burden. Myra’s surgery and chemotherapy cost more ...

New Jersey Lawmakers Have Opportunities to Save Lives and Money Through Improving Access to Affordable Health Coverage, Tobacco Control and Quality of Life Measures   TRENTON, NJ – August 3, 2017 – New Jersey is falling short when it comes to ... cancer prevention efforts, curb tobacco use, prioritize the quality of life for patients and their families and increase access to critical health coverage.” How Do You Measure Up? rates states in nine specific areas of public policy that can help fight cancer, including smoke-free ... approach to pain medications. Additionally, the report offers a blueprint for how New Jersey can work within the current federal health care law on a state-based approach to improving access to affordable and adequate health coverage for cancer patients and their families. It ...

... Making prescription medicines subject to a closed formulary would restrict a provider’s ability to make the best medical decision for the care of their patients,  effectively taking the clinical care decisions away from the provider and patient and giving it to the state. Patients ... disease. Disruptions in treatment, including switching a patients’ medication mid-treatment, could negatively impact their treatment and health outcomes. Medicaid is a crucial source of coverage for thousands of Massachusetts residents with serious and chronic health care needs. This proposal could severely restrict their access to critical therapies necessary to improve health outcomes. Therefore, we ...

Medicaid Expansion Bring Federal Tax Dollars Back to South Dakota and Expand Health Care for Over 42,000 South Dakotans   Video of hope_in_the_heartland_closing_the_health_care_gap     What is at risk? Right now, Washington politicians send South Dakota’s Medicaid dollars to California, New York, and 36 ...