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Vermont: 12-4-09 This Week in Health Care Reform

... new and important phase in the historic attempt to pass health care reform legislation. As the Senate began its pivotal floor debate Monday, ACS CAN continued to work with lawmakers from both parties to attempt to amend the bill to remove cost barriers to care by ending arbitrary lifetime caps on benefits, reducing or eliminating co-pays for preventive services including mammograms and colonoscopies, and limiting the ability of insurance companies to charge more for coverage based on an applicant’s health status or age.   Access to, and coverage for, screenings and ...

More Than 100 Volunteers Will Ask Legislature to Prioritize Cancer Prevention

... in health care bills each year, but the state ranks 50 th in the nation in spending for tobacco cessation and prevention. With 63 percent of Missouri’s adults intending to quit in the next six months, woefully underfunded programs such as the Missouri Tobacco Quitline are in high ... Day at the Capitol will ask lawmakers to maintain general revenue funding for tobacco cessation in House Bill 10 through the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. Volunteers will also ask legislators to continue to support Show-Me Healthy Women. Now in its 25 th year, this state ... to Missouri’s low-income, uninsured and other medically underserved women. Nearly 90,000 women in the state qualify for this program. For ACS CAN volunteers Allison Johnson and Keith Whittemore, this day is personal: Johnson was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma at age 19 while at the ...

New Poll Shows Overwhelming Opposition to Medicaid Cuts and Premium Increases for Older, Sicker Americans

... to a lump sum or per-capita payment structure when they find out that structure would prohibit states from responding to the real-time needs of their residents. The poll, commissioned by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), comes just one day after Senate leadership announced they would delay a vote on their health bill. The Senate bill would cut more than $800 ... against this disease.” The poll also found most Americans would oppose their states limiting Medicaid patients’ access to certain high-cost drugs or cancer treatments (81 percent) and would also object to restricting access to preventive screenings and diagnostic tests such as ...

2018 Legislative Session Update

... Legislative Session was the last session under current leadership, sandwiched between a hurricane and a campaign season. There was a fair amount of controversy, which led to dead legislation and stripped funding. However, through all the conflict you all did a great job of helping with our messaging and reaching the legislators in assistance with our lobbying team in Tallahassee. We are happy to report that the ... including more than $178.8 million in mission-related appropriations is awaiting the Governor’s approval, including funding for three of ACS CAN’s top priorities.   Mary Brogan Breast & Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program - The Legislature approved total state funding of $1.83 ...

Legislature Failing to Protect Ohioans from Tobacco —But the Clock Hasn’t Run Out Yet

COLUMBUS, OHIO – Today, the Ohio Senate passed its version of the budget, which didn’t include the increased tobacco taxes or funding for programs to reduce tobacco use proposed by Gov. DeWine. The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) strongly opposes this move and calls on the upcoming conference committee on HB 96 to reverse this action.  The Following is a Statement from American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network Government Relations Director Leo Almeida: “Tobacco use remains the leading cause of preventable death and disease in Ohio, resulting in 20,200 deaths each year, including 33.5% of cancer deaths.  “That is why it is ...

The Future of Cancer Care: The Role of Biomarkers in Advancing Personalized Medicine

The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), the advocacy affiliate of the American Cancer Society, is the nation’s leading cancer advocacy organization working every day to make ... tools and training they need to be heard.  ACS CAN’s public policy priorities are focused on the actions that elected leaders at all levels of government can take to accelerate the ability to save lives and win the fight against cancer. ACS CAN is hosting our 4 th annual Connecticut ...

New Report: Florida is Failing to Invest in Programs to Protect Kids from Tobacco Products Including E-cigarettes

WASHINGTON, D.C. – December 19, 2019 – A report released today by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids and other public health groups shows that, amidst a youth tobacco use epidemic that is being driven by ... the states and Big Tobacco that required tobacco companies pay more than $246 billion over time to states as compensation for the deadly toll of their products. Florida collects approximately $1.5 billion in settlement funds and tobacco taxes every year, but will spend only 37.1% of that revenue on tobacco prevention programs in Fiscal Year 2020.   “E-cigarettes have helped cause a youth tobacco use epidemic in ...

Gov. McAuliffe Signs Palliative Care Bill

... in a bill-signing ceremony for Virginia’s Palliative Care Information and Resources Bill.  This legislation requires the Virginia Department of Health to use their website to make information and resources on palliative care available to the public, health care professionals and health ... The bill is scheduled to go into effect on July 1.    Palliative care is a fast-growing medical specialty that improves a patient’s quality of life by focusing on relief from pain, stress and other symptoms of a serious illness like cancer.   “This bill is designed to remove one the ... to patients receiving palliative care,” said Gov. McAuliffe, “By eliminating confusion among patients and health care professionals, we can build a common and comprehensive understanding of how palliative care can improve quality of life for patients suffering from cancer and other ...

Rhode Island Senate Votes to Remove Barriers to Biomarker Testing

... right patient, at the right time,’ precision medicine has played a critical role in improving cancer outcomes – biomarker testing being one of the ways we can achieve these outcomes by allowing doctors to understand and target unique markers in a patient’s cancer cells. Despite its benefits, access to biomarker testing has not kept pace with the rate of innovation due in part to lack of coverage by private health insurance and Medicaid for needed testing. Senate Bill 2201 aims to enable more ...

Local Cancer Advocate Traveled to Nation’s Capital to Urge Congress to Make Cancer a Top Priority

... cancer patients, survivors, and their loved ones from all 50 states and almost every congressional district united in Washington, D.C., as part of the annual American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) Leadership Summit and Lobby Day (LSLD). ACS CAN volunteers, who will be some of the first people back in the Capitol to meet with lawmakers since the pandemic, urged Congress to take specific steps to make cancer a national ...

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