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February Update from Peter Slocum

FROM: Peter Slocum, Vice President of Advocacy NY & NJ Access to Care – Health Care Reform In the run-up to today's summit on health care reform, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) joined nine other national organizations in calling on Congress to ...

2022 Maine State Legislative Session Summary

... cancer requires bold new public policies that promote cancer prevention, early detection of cancer, and expand access to quality, affordable health care. Lawmakers make many decisions that impact the lives of Mainers touched by cancer and their leadership is vital to defeating this disease. ... in the following policy priorities: Ensuring Access to Quality Care COVID-19 Protections : ACS CAN worked with the legislature and other public health and health care organizations to successfully defeat a bill that would have prohibited employers and other entities from requiring COVID-19 ...

ACS CAN Profiles Voices of those Impacted by Medicaid Program through Launch of Digital Storybook

Today, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) launched a collection of digital stories from individuals, families and health care professionals as part of its Medicaid Covers US project. The stories feature people directly impacted by Medicaid across several states as ... features the faces and stories of those who have been helped by the program, those who could benefit from the program if they were eligible and health professionals who have seen what critical role this program plays for their patients and their health systems. ACS CAN’s Medicaid Covers ...

2020 Alabama Legislative Session Summary

... Alabama Legislature to appropriate over $1 million for cancer initiatives and in support of the following priorities: Ensuring Access to Quality Care • Medicaid: ACS CAN worked to broaden access to health care coverage provided to thousands of lowincome state residents through the state’s Medicaid program. The health care coverage provided by Medicaid affords women screened and diagnosed with breast or cervical cancer access to comprehensive health care ...

Gov. Little Proclaims Cancer Action Day, Advocates From Across State Advocate for Medicaid

... and advocates traveled from all parts of the Gem State to ask lawmakers to prioritize cancer in their policies, specifically making sure health care is affordable and accessible. The proclamation reads in part: “No one should be disadvantaged in their fight against cancer” and “Awareness is the first step toward advancing health equity, research, and improving funding to identify causes and facilitate prevention, early detection, effective treatment, and a cure for ...

2019 ACS CAN Ohio Legislative Priorities

... cancer requires bold new public policies that promote cancer prevention, early detection of cancer, and expand access to quality, affordable health care. Lawmakers make many decisions that impact the lives of Ohioans touched by cancer and their leadership is vital to defeating this disease. In ... allocation of $35 million to fund the best-practice tobacco prevention, cessation, and control program administered by the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) to keep kids from starting to use tobacco and help adults quit. Increase Tax on Other Tobacco Products: ACS CAN will advocate for ...

This Week in Healthcare Reform!

Week Ending May 16th This week was one of the most important in the health care reform debate, with the president using his bully pulpit several times to promote the issue. On Monday, May 11, he met with executives from organizations representing health insurers, drug companies, hospitals, doctors, medical device makers, and unions. The participants pledged to find cost savings of up to $2 ...

ACS CAN Minnesota 2020 Research and Innovation Forum Resources

American Cancer Society Health Insurance Literacy App The ACS Health Insurance Literacy app is a tool for health care providers, patient navigators, health insurance navigators, and patients for education ...

House Votes to Disapprove Medicaid Block Grant Guidance; Concerns Persist About Access Issues

... 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 populations. Medicaid is the primary health insurance for nearly 65 million people, 2 million of whom have a history of cancer and an estimated 500,000 who gained coverage through ...

Documentary Left Behind by Medicaid Program Chosen for Screening at Knoxville Film Festival

Knoxville, TN  – With the COVID-19 pandemic shining a bright light on the importance of affordable and accessible health insurance coverage, Medicaid continues to be a central topic of discussion among public health advocates, hospital and health systems administrators, community leaders and state lawmakers. Now that conversation continues in the world ... where we show it.  I think it’s even more deeply felt in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic asit reiterates the importance of access to care and the role that Medicaid can play during a public health crisis.”  In Left Behind, North Carolina residents Richard, Emma and Adrienne ...

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