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2024 Tennessee Legislative 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 Tennesseans impacted by cancer and their leadership is vital to defeating this ... General Assembly passed legislation that gives men at high-risk for prostate cancer improved access to prostate cancer screening by requiring health insurance coverage for evidence-based prostate cancer preventive care and screenings, without cost sharing. Breast and Cervical Cancer: ...

American Cancer Society and ACS CAN Statement: White House’s Cancer Moonshot National Cancer Plan

... delivery of precision cancer treatments. ACS CAN will advocate for robust and sustained federal funding annually for the National Institutes of Health and National Cancer Institute, to promote development of innovative cancer prevention, early detection, and treatment. Eliminate ... resources in their communities. ACS CAN will pursue federal and state policies nationwide that reduce cancer disparities through access to health insurance coverage, addressing financial toxicity through increasing care affordability, and reducing barriers that lead to more diverse enrollment in clinical trials. Deliver Best Care: Our health care system ...

2023 ACS CAN Utah Cancer Summit

... at [email protected] .    ACS CAN is hosting the annual Utah Cancer Summit  a premier event that educates leaders from the public health, business, education, medical, government and research communities, to recognize legislative champions and to advance the work of ACS CAN. ... ACS CAN and its advocacy work. ACS CAN’s 2023 Utah Cancer Summit Program  will explore just some of the emerging issues in access to cancer care and some of the hurdles Utah cancer patients face in receiving optimal care. Discussion topics will include copay accumulator programs, ... early detection tests. The 2023 Utah Cancer Summit  will convene diverse stakeholders in the community – patient advocates, payors, health systems, business leaders, and lawmakers – to engage in a roundtable discussion about just some of the emerging issues in cancer care and ...

Our 2015 State Legislative Priorities

... would strip local authority to enact smoke-free protections. Improving Quality of Life for Patients and Survivors Create a Palliative/Supportive Care and Quality of Life Advisory Council and educational initiative to address barriers to person-centered palliative/supportive care during treatment from the beginning of diagnosis of serious diseases such as cancer. Access to Health Care for Cancer Patients, Survivors, and their Families Adopt a solution that will allow Texas to accept available federal health care dollars to close the Texas coverage gap. Physical Activity, Nutrition, and Obesity Prevention Increase weekly physical education ...

The Cancer Promise

... pledge to support evidence-based public policy solutions to end cancer as we know it, for everyone, by accelerating cures, improving access to care, and ensuring access to cancer prevention and early detection services, including tobacco control. If elected, Candidates pledge to: Support sustainable annual increases in cancer research funding for the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute. Protect existing laws and support legislation to expand health care options that help patients access quality, affordable health care. Support legislation to ensure access to cancer prevention services, ...

House Subcommittee to Vote on Bills to Halt Damaging Insurance Rule Changes; Preserve Pre-Existing Condition Protections

Washington, D.C. - Today the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health is considering a series of bills that would stabilize and strengthen the health insurance market and decrease the number of uninsured by improving the ability of people with pre-existing conditions to obtain and afford ... president of ACS CAN follows: “The subcommittee has an opportunity to take an important step to preserve access to comprehensive health care for millions of American cancer patients, survivors and anyone at risk for the disease. “The changes the administration has put forth for ...

Partner and Policy Resources

...             Social Graphics                 Previous Webinars Medicaid in the US Territories: How Inequitable Funding Exacerbates Health Disparities Video of medicaid_in_the_us_territories_how_inequitable_funding_exacerbates_health_disparities   Medicaid & Health Equity: 100 Years After the Tulsa Race Massacre Video of Medicaid & Health Equity: 100 Years After the ... 23rd, 2021 event that focused on the aftermath of the Tulsa Race Massacre, how racism and discrimination impacts health and access to health care today, and how Oklahoma’s expanded Medicaid program is a step in the right direction to providing better access to health care coverage. The ...

April 2011 Monthly Advocacy Update

... Medicaid through block grants, which could lead to new restrictions in eligibility, enrollment and benefits that could deny cancer patients the care they need. The budget would also turn Medicare, which has provided affordable, adequate health care to seniors for nearly 50 years, into a vaguely defined voucher program with limited benefits that could have devastating consequences ... stall progress against cancer by reducing the funds available for research and defunding a historic investment in prevention, namely the Public Health and Prevention Fund. Eliminating this funding would compromise our nation’s efforts to combat obesity, promote tobacco cessation and ...

April 2011 Monthly Advocacy Update

... Medicaid through block grants, which could lead to new restrictions in eligibility, enrollment and benefits that could deny cancer patients the care they need. The budget would also turn Medicare, which has provided affordable, adequate health care to seniors for nearly 50 years, into a vaguely defined voucher program with limited benefits that could have devastating consequences ... stall progress against cancer by reducing the funds available for research and defunding a historic investment in prevention, namely the Public Health and Prevention Fund. Eliminating this funding would compromise our nation’s efforts to combat obesity, promote tobacco cessation and ...

April 2011 Monthly Advocacy Update

... Medicaid through block grants, which could lead to new restrictions in eligibility, enrollment and benefits that could deny cancer patients the care they need. The budget would also turn Medicare, which has provided affordable, adequate health care to seniors for nearly 50 years, into a vaguely defined voucher program with limited benefits that could have devastating consequences ... stall progress against cancer by reducing the funds available for research and defunding a historic investment in prevention, namely the Public Health and Prevention Fund. Eliminating this funding would compromise our nation’s efforts to combat obesity, promote tobacco cessation and ...

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