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State Lead Ambassador Summit Last weekend ACS CAN hosted its sixth annual State Lead Ambassador Summit in St. Louis for 48 volunteer leaders and their staff partners. The Summit included a town ... for implementing the Affordable Care Act (ACA).  Later in the weekend, breakout sessions were held on the essential health benefits provision of the law and why it is so important to achieving adequate coverage for cancer patients and survivors. At the end of the discussion, participants had the chance to build their own essential health benefits package as part of a group exercise designed to ...

As a cancer survivor, I can tell you the words “you have cancer” are life-changing. But thanks to better access to care, many more people are not only surviving this ... still exist keeping individuals from getting recommended colonoscopies. One such barrier that actually has an easy fix relates to a surprise cost that seniors on Medicare can face when receiving a colonoscopy. Unlike individuals with private insurance plans, seniors can wake up to an unexpected bill if a polyp is found and removed during a routine colonoscopy. This was a mistake and was never intended to fall on the backs of our seniors. But Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., can help fix this glitch by co-sponsoring the Removing Barriers to Colorectal Cancer Screening ...

ATLANTA) January 17, 2014 The U.S. Surgeon General 's  Report on the Health Consequences of Smoking  released today celebrates progress in reducing tobacco 's toll over the past 50 years and offers a prescription for ending the epidemic of death and disease caused by tobacco products. This new report details how the unscrupulous, unrelenting efforts of the tobacco industry hooked ... and cessation programs and Œæspecific actions such as mandating the reduction of nicotine in tobacco to non-addictive levels. These strategies can help the 70 percent of smokers more than 31 million people who say they want to put their cigarettes and tobacco away forever and quit for ...

... program from the General Fund.   This is the first time in the Fund's history that there has been a proposal to eliminate the entire portion of FHM funding for certain programs. In addition, there is a proposed statutory language change that would make it easier for the Fund to be ... businesses that oppose these cuts . If you own a business or know someone who does, please ask them to sign a letter to the legislature, which can be found here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/wesupportthefhm   TAKE ACTION: Please contact members of the HHS Committee to let them know that ... benefit started Jan. 1,, more than 150,000 seniors and others with Medicare have received an annual wellness visit. This new visit is a no-cost preventive benefit available to Medicare beneficiaries. Beneficiaries must schedule the visit with a participating health care professional. ...