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... report back on your ACTIONS     Medicaid Document section:  Document 1: Medicaid Cuts & the Workforce This document explains that Medicaid is health insurance for low-wage workers who aren't offered coverage through their job and can't afford private health insurance. The document lists out several ways Medicaid is a resource to workers as well as how Medicaid cuts will eliminate jobs and halt ... Document 2: The Real Cost of Cutting Medicaid   This document explains that rushing cuts to Medicaid will hurt those who can least aford care and won't do anything to lower health care costs.  Document 3: Medicaid work requirements jeopardize access to care for cancer patients and ...

... Coverage (SBC), which will put cancer patients, survivors and their families in a far better position to make important decisions about their health coverage. Under the Affordable Care Act, insurers are required to provide consumers a brief, straightforward summary of benefits, including real-world examples.  ACS CAN views ... the provision as a fundamental component of the fourth "A" - administrative simplicity -- in the Society and ACS CAN's four "A's" of meaningful health coverage.    The final rule is a very good step forward in helping consumers. Beginning September 23, 2012, all plans-individual and group ...

... and provider groups representing millions of Americans issued the following statement today on the Senate’s proposal to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA): “Any attempt to repeal the ACA without replacing it with equal or better coverage will leave our health care system in shambles. If the existing law is abolished, 32 million Americans could lose their insurance coverage in the next decade. This ... is completely unacceptable for the patients we represent. Many of these Americans are low-income or struggle every day with pre-existing health conditions, and have come to rely on the coverage the law has provided. The ACA is not perfect, however, and we agree that long-term ...

... weeks after graduation, Mina was diagnosed with bone cancer. Prior to her diagnosis, Mina’s parents heard about a provision in the Affordable Care Act that allowed them to add Mina to their health insurance through age 26. And they did it. It was a move that perhaps saved Mina’s life and prevented her parents from going bankrupt ... Mina’s story isn’t over yet. As a proud cancer survivor, she’s now considered to have a “pre-existing condition.” Without the current health care law, it would be nearly impossible for her to get health insurance on her own - all because she had the audacity to survive and thrive. ...