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Early Detection and Screening Can Save Lives & Money

Early detection of breast and cervical cancer through screening can improve survival and reduce mortality by finding cancer at an early stage when treatment is more effective and less expensive. However, ... has shown there are many barriers to cancer screening for people with limited income, including access to providers and facilities, costs of screening and care, lack of knowledge and understanding about the role of screening, as well as barriers like time off work and access to ...

ACS CAN Supports the Access to Breast Cancer Diagnosis Act (S.1500/H.R. 3037)

ACS CAN supports the Access to Breast Cancer Diagnosis Act to increase access to no cost breast cancer screening, including all diagnostic and ... ― including diagnostic and follow-up testing ― are covered without cost-sharing is essential to increasing access and expanding coverage of breast cancer screening.  ACS CAN Supports the Access to Breast Cancer Diagnosis Act (S.1500/H.R. 3037) ...

Quick Summary: Final Version of 2025 Budget Reconciliation Legislation

On July 3, 2025, Congress passed the final version of its 2025 budget reconciliation legislation . The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network strongly opposed the health changes included in ... eligibility for Medicaid coverage – this will cause many individuals to lose coverage not because they are unemployed, but because they can’t navigate the bureaucratic process to prove they are working or deserve an exemption. To be implemented by January 1, 2027. Some states may choose to implement earlier through waivers. Charging cost-sharing to Medicaid enrollees living just barely over the poverty line – which will force working families to choose between health care and ...

ACS CAN Supports the “Increasing Access to Lung Cancer Screening Act” (H.R. 4286)

Background Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death for both men and women with 127,070 deaths expected in the U.S. in 2023. An estimated 238,340 new cases of lung cancer will be ... to be treated successfully. Research has shown that access to yearly low-dose CT (LDCT) scans to screen people at higher risk of lung cancer can save lives. Yet despite recommendations for lung cancer screening since 2013 from both the American Cancer Society and the U.S. Preventive ... (D‑NY-26) and Representative Kathy Castor (D-FL-14) the “Increasing Access to Lung Cancer Screening Act:” Provides coverage without cost-sharing for lung cancer screening as recommended by USPSTF to the traditional Medicaid population. Provides coverage for tobacco cessation as ...

State Tobacco Tax Increases: Explanations and Sources for Projections of New Revenues & Benefits

  STATE TOBACCO TAX INCREASES: EXPLANATIONS AND SOURCES FOR PROJECTIONS OF NEW REVENUES & BENEFITS   The economic model developed jointly by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (TFK), the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), and Economics for Health [1] (housed at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) projects the increase in state revenues, public health benefits, and health care cost savings resulting from increases in state cigarette tax rates. The projections are updated annually. Calculations are based on economic ...

Survivor Views: Cancer & Medical Debt

Overview: The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) gives voice to cancer patients and survivors on critical public policy issues that affect their lives.  As part of this effort, ACS CAN deploys surveys to better understand cancer patient and survivor experiences and perspectives, through our Survivor Views ... through 23, 2022, the latest survey explores cancer patients’ and survivors’ experiences and concerns with medical debt associated with the cost of cancer care. The web-based survey was conducted among 1,218 patients and survivors nationwide diagnosed with or treated for cancer in the ...

High Deductible Health Plans, Health Savings Accounts and Cancer Patients

... savings accounts (HSAs) are becoming more common in employer-sponsored insurance and the individual and small group markets.  These types of plans have risks and features must be implemented carefully so they do not harm cancer patients, survivors or those at risk for cancer. What is ... have lower premiums – the enrollee’s monthly bill – the plans have higher deductibles and enrollees often pay a much higher share of the cost for health care services.  Shopping by premium alone can result in large out-of-pocket costs in HDHPs. The IRS defines a HDHP as any plan with a deductible of at least $1,400 for an individual or ...

Survivor Views: Copay Assistance and Patient Navigation

Overview: The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) gives voice to cancer patients and survivors on critical public policy issues that affect their lives.  As part of this effort, ACS CAN deploys surveys to better understand cancer patient and survivor experiences and perspectives, through our Survivor Views ... populations, with over one-quarter of Black, Hispanic, and Asian cancer patients and survivors reporting they have declined treatment due to cost after finding they were unable to enroll in a copay assistance program. The most difficult tasks for cancer patients and survivors tend to be ...

Investment in Tobacco Control: Protect CDC's Office on Smoking and Health

The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) calls on Congress to support a sustained level of funding of $310 million for tobacco control and reject the elimination of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Office on Smoking and Health ...

Survivor Views: Preventive Care Coverage, Medical Debt, & Food Insecurity

Overview The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) empowers advocates across the country to make their voices heard and influence evidence-based public policy change, as well as legislative and regulatory solutions that will reduce the cancer burden. As part of this effort, ACS CAN deploys surveys to better understand cancer patient and survivor experiences and perspectives, through our Survivor Views ... v. Becerra case which could challenge the ACA requirement that most private insurance plans cover recommended preventive care services without cost sharing. Finding ways to help cancer patients stay out of medical debt and reduce the negative impacts of medical debt they have already ...

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