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Do you get your health insurance through the Marketplace? Health care tax credits are an essential lifeline. They provide affordable access to timely, life-saving treatments for cancer patients. If you have benefitted from health care tax credits, we'd like to hear your story. 0 Your story has power. ...

Leading Patient Advocacy Organizations Join Effort to Bring Medicaid Expansion to the  2028 Ballot in Florida

... signatures needed to add a question on the 2028 ballot asking voters whether the state should expand Medicaid. This expansion would provide health coverage access for more than 1.4 million Floridians who currently lack affordable options. Florida remains one of just 10 states that have not expanded access to health insurance through Medicaid. Once the anticipated impacts of H.R. 1 passed by Congress last summer, which include significant federal cuts to the Medicaid program, are realized, and without Congressional action to extend the enhanced health care tax credits that made health insurance on the Marketplace more affordable, the need for Florida to act is only exacerbated. The state ...

South Dakota Legislature Still Has Medicaid Expansion in Crosshairs

... approving House Joint Resolution 5001, potentially triggering a 2026 Constitutional Amendment ballot question that could terminate access to health care for the 29,000 South Dakotans enrolled in Medicaid expansion. To cover the thousands of people who previously did not qualify for traditional ... federal government decide to drop its share, South Dakota could revert back to the time when tens of thousands were uninsured with no option for health care coverage, leaving hard-working South Dakotans unable to afford basic preventative care or routine cancer screenings.   The South ...

Cancer Advocates Celebrate Bill to Improve Quality of Life

... Kansas Legislature passed a bill to improve quality of life for patients with serious, long-term illnesses through expanded access to palliative care. Hilary Gee, Kansas government relations director for the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network released the following statement in response: “Thanks to the Legislature’s work today, Kansans are one step closer to better long-term health. We’d like to thank our lawmakers for prioritizing this issue, especially Senators Barbara Bollier, Laura Kelly and Vicki Schmidt and ... to manage the burdensome symptoms and side effects that come with a serious disease. By homing in on a patient’s specific needs and goals, health care providers avoid unnecessary and unwanted treatments, which reduces costs for both patients and hospitals. This type of care has been ...

Idaho Supports Medicaid: In Our Words

Video of idaho_supports_medicaid_in_our_words This video showcases the impact of Idaho Medicaid and the importance of protecting health care access for all Idahoans against legislative attacks. Medicaid expansion, passed with an overwhelming margin of support by voters in 2018, has been a resounding success in allowing Idahoans to get access to the health care they need and deserve. This film features the personal stories and experiences of hardworking Idahoans who have benefitted from this ...

Medicaid Guidance Likely to Hurt Patients; Increase Number of Uninsured

... federal funding from a percentage match, wherein the program’s funding adjusts automatically to account for the number of enrollees and rising health care costs, to one where funding could be capped. These grants would apply specifically to the Medicaid expansion population and optional adult ... has the potential to significantly reduce low-income cancer patients, survivors and their families’ access to affordable, comprehensive health care in states that choose to apply.   Medicaid is the primary health insurance for nearly 65 million people, 2 million of whom have a ...

Defending Immigrants’ Access to Medicaid

... how the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) interprets the “public charge” rule in a way that helps ensure that immigrants can access health care and other supplemental government services to which they are entitled by law, without causing harmful immigration consequences. The state of ... policy violates federal immigration statutes, causing damage to the state by forcing it to pay Medicaid costs for immigrants ACS CAN and public health partners support access to Medicaid regardless of immigration status, and filed an amicus brief asking the court to consider the potential ...

Hundreds of Cancer Advocates to Urge Lawmakers to Put Patients Before Politics

... from all 50 states and nearly every Congressional district will unite tomorrow to lobby their members of Congress in support of comprehensive health care reform. The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) is hosting its annual leadership summit and lobby day to urge lawmakers to ... on patients, not politics, by supporting reform that escalates the emphasis on disease prevention and ensures that all Americans have access to health care. “If we are going to meet our national goal of reducing death and suffering related to cancer, all Americans must have access to ...

Gov. Colyer Holds Signing Ceremony for Quality of Life Law

TOPEKA, Kan. – June 29, 2018 – Cancer survivors, health care providers and representatives from advocacy groups joined Gov. Jeff Colyer today at a signing ceremony for a bill to improve patient quality ... Sclerosis Society, National Alliance on Mental Illness, University of Kansas Cancer Center, University of Kansas Medical Center and Via Christi Health in Wichita.   “ Palliative care is one of the fastest-growing trends in health care, and Kansas can now help lead the way by offering ...

Wyoming Must Increase Access to Medicaid to Reduce Cancer, Save Lives and Money in the State

... This year, more than 3,000 Wyoming residents will be diagnosed with cancer and many will be uninsured. Access to affordable and comprehensive care is essential to detect, treat and survive cancer. "It’s important to prevent cancer or catch it very early when it can be treated easily. So ... expansion was associated with improved screening rates for colorectal, prostate and cervical cancer. [iii] State economies, hospitals and health systems, and provider networks have become stronger, and Medicaid expansion has increased personal incomes and state revenues by creating ... and protecting jobs. States that fully expanded Medicaid eligibility saw rates of uninsured individuals decrease, reducing uncompensated health care costs. Hospitals are 84% less likely to close in states that have expanded Medicaid eligibility, [iv] and Affordable Care Act insurance ...

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