Site Search

Affordable Care Act Replacement – Support development and enactment of legislation which continues the protections for cancer patients and survivors that guarantee access to adequate and affordable health insurance ... curtails Medicaid expansion, over time substantially reducing overall Medicaid funding which impacts the most vulnerable cancer patients. ACS CAN is also concerned about how the overall approach will impact the quality and adequacy of health insurance coverage which is an issue of ... Support the Removing Barriers to Colorectal Cancer Screening Act (RBCCSA). Support House and Senate passage of RBCCSA to remove Medicare patient cost-sharing requirements for colonoscopy with polyp removal. Support regulatory changes to provide coverage for the colorectal cancer screening ...

... the funds needed to implement the law, such as subsidies for middle-class Americans to purchase insurance in state exchanges and elimination of the Prevention and Public Health Fund. Both the budget resolution and White House plan would seek to reduce Medicare and Medicaid spending.   ... expenditures by standardizing the federal match and other program changes, and it would reduce Medicare expenditures by expanding the power of the Independent Payment Advisory Board, which was established under the Affordable Care Act to reduce Medicare payments and services if they ... reductions without sacrificing the medical security of cancer patients and survivors and others with serious medical conditions. Read the ACS CAN talking points on entitlement reform proposals, and the April 15, 2011 ACS CAN press release on the House FY2012 Budget Resolution. Dr. Seffrin ...

... the funds needed to implement the law, such as subsidies for middle-class Americans to purchase insurance in state exchanges and elimination of the Prevention and Public Health Fund. Both the budget resolution and White House plan would seek to reduce Medicare and Medicaid spending.   ... expenditures by standardizing the federal match and other program changes, and it would reduce Medicare expenditures by expanding the power of the Independent Payment Advisory Board, which was established under the Affordable Care Act to reduce Medicare payments and services if they ... reductions without sacrificing the medical security of cancer patients and survivors and others with serious medical conditions. Read the ACS CAN talking points on entitlement reform proposals, and the April 15, 2011 ACS CAN press release on the House FY2012 Budget Resolution. Dr. Seffrin ...

Litigation   The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals today dismissed two challenges to the Affordable Care Act. In Commonwealth of Virginia v. Sebelius , the case brought by Virginia’s ... assistance and lowering out-of-pocket costs. The extent to which it will help will depend on the choice of plans, benefit design and health care cost trends.   As always, thank you for all you do every day to support laws and policies that help cancer patients and their families.   Christopher W. Hansen President American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN)   9-8-11 Affordable Care Act Update ...