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Join us at our Texas Cancer Policy Forum events

... and San Antonio. We will convene a 90-minute discussion in each city featuring legislative, clinical, and personal perspectives on palliative care. Guests will include leading palliative care researchers, oncologists, health professionals, citizen-volunteers and health care advocates. There is no cost to attend. Here is the full list of events -- to register, click on the city name and complete the form. ...

New Poll Reveals Americans Are Foregoing Lifesaving Treatment and Cancer Screenings Due to Economic Downturn

Nationwide health care reform that benefits cancer patients would work for all Americans. ACS CAN released a national bipartisan poll this week on the impact of the ... all of the treatment and care needed if they were suddenly diagnosed with cancer. The poll data also revealed that the public's fear of losing health insurance is growing. One in five Americans with health insurance feel it is likely they or someone in their household will lose coverage ...

American Cancer Society Expert Testifies on Importance of Expanding Access to Mammography

... testified Otis Brawley, M.D., chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society, before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health today. At the hearing, which focused on the new breast cancer screening guidelines issued last month by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, Brawley also testified that health care reform legislation could reduce confusion and improve public confidence by ensuring that the process for determining such recommendations is ...

On healthcare, NC has accepted what SC lawmakers continue to reject

As a long-time physician and public health advocate in Rock Hill, S.C., I am looking to our northern neighbors with envy. On Dec. 1, North Carolina closed the coverage gap and ... they earned too little to afford insurance and too much to qualify for Medicaid. In fact, less than half of South Carolina employers offer health insurance to employees. These are hard-working people like church pastors, truck drivers, childcare workers, restaurant cooks and mental ... of the family who came in the middle of the night to have their 1-year-old treated for a painful ear infection and high fever. They delayed care for the child due to not having insurance. This caused a danger to the child and a financial burden to the hospital for having to cover the ...

Calls to Improve New Yorkers’ Access to Precision Medicine Through Biomarker Testing Bring Together Patients and Providers from across Disease Spectrum

ALBANY, NY – APRIL 19, 2023 – With budget talks nearing an end, key public health, patient and provider groups have launched a campaign to urge New York lawmakers to support Assembly Bill 1673 / Senate Bill 1196. The proposed legislation seeks to improve New Yorkers’ access to precision medicine, requiring all state-regulated health plans, including Medicaid, to cover biomarker testing when it is supported by medical and scientific evidence. Over 60 organizations have ... time. Utilizing information from patients’ own genes and tissue, biomarker testing unlocks the door to precision medicine, or personalized care. Biomarker testing helps providers to identify the most appropriate treatment for a disease. In cancer care, this can enable patients to ...

Blair Horner Named VP for Advocacy

... Of Blair Horner As Vice President For Advocacy; Horner’s First Day On May 2nd. New York And New Jersey Needs To Place Establishment Of Health Exchanges As Top End-Of-Session Priority Albany, NY (April 14, 2011) – The American Cancer Society of New York and New Jersey today ... reduce cancer rates and to help those with cancer to get the treatment they need. One critical ACS goal is to ensure that cancer patients obtain health insurance, without which many cancer patients cannot survive. "When you talk about change and reform in Albany, you talk about Blair ... of state policymakers must be the creation of health exchanges.” Health exchanges are established under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). The exchange is a marketplace where individuals and small groups can purchase insurance that includes essential health care ...

Cancer Advocates Visit Rep. Lawler’s Office, Urge Him to Protect Medicaid for all New Yorkers

... including working families, cancer patients and survivors, people with disabilities, seniors, veterans and children, who receive lifesaving care through Medicaid. Federal lawmakers have proposed slashing up to $880 billion from Medicaid over the next decade. Such devastating cuts would put essential health services at risk for millions of people nationwide and for the more than 6.7 million New Yorkers who rely on Medicaid for lifesaving health care --including prescriptions for limited-income seniors, kids receiving cancer treatment and prenatal care for expecting mothers.   ...

States Improve Pain Policies, but Barriers Remain to Effective Pain Management for Cancer and other Chronic Diseases

... pain to alleviate their suffering, according to a report released today that evaluates state policies to improve pain management and patient care. However, only five states have received a grade of 'A' for enabling health care professionals to effectively alleviate the suffering of their patients without encountering barriers in legislation or regulation. The ... 39 percent of the U.S. population lives in the 18 states that have a grade of C or C+. No state's grade decreased. "A growing number of state health care regulatory agencies have recognized the importance of adopting policies that encourage pain management, palliative care and end-of-life ...

Utah Lawmakers Reverse Voter’s Choice, Undermine Access to Medicaid

... no such restrictions. "Utahns have spoken and the clear majority voted to ensure that families in our communities have access to affordable health care," said Brook Carlisle, director of government relations, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network Utah. "We did not vote to restrict ... cancer treatment services for low-income Utahns. We did not vote to undermine their opportunity to gain access to comprehensive and affordable health care coverage that will allow them to get healthy, stay healthy and provide for their families." SB96 contains many provisions that could ...

Alaska Legislature Made Strides Against Cancer in 2024 Session

... and supplemental breast cancer imaging tests.    “With many competing priorities facing the legislature, ACS CAN is pleased to see access to health care improve with passage of the telehealth and breast imaging bills. We remain steadfast in the need for updated tobacco prevention policies to ... Alaskans with a suspected or diagnosed life-threatening condition, like cancer, to do complete visits via telehealth from a range of qualified health care providers including nurse practitioners, physician assistants and therapists; currently, such coverage is only required for telehealth ...

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