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Cancer Patients & Families Counting on Lawmakers to Reauthorize Medicaid Expansion

CONCORD – April 3, 2023 – Tomorrow, the House Health and Human Services Committee will host a public hearing on SB 263, reauthorizing the Granite Advantage Health Care Program. The following statement can be attributed to Dr. Patricia Edwards, MD, FAAP, a pediatrician from Bow and volunteer advocate with the ...

Cancer Patients & Families Counting on Lawmakers to Reauthorize Medicaid Expansion

CONCORD – April 3, 2023 – Tomorrow, the House Health and Human Services Committee will host a public hearing on SB 263, reauthorizing the Granite Advantage Health Care Program. The following statement can be attributed to Dr. Patricia Edwards, MD, FAAP, a pediatrician from Bow and volunteer advocate with the ...

Patient Groups File Amicus Brief in Support of DOJ’s Motion for Stay to U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 28, 2023 – Today, patient groups representing millions of individuals with serious health conditions filed an amicus curiae (or friend-of-the-court) brief supporting the Department of Justice (DOJ)’s motion asking the U.S. Court ... to put the lower court’s March 30 ruling on hold citing the devastating impact the decision will have on patient access to critical preventive care services absent a stay.   The groups, including the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, Arthritis Foundation, American Kidney ... for the Fifth Circuit that allowing the District Court’s judgment to take effect would reverse a decade’s worth of progress in improving health outcomes. Given the risk to public health and the imminent harm posed to patients we serve, we urge the Fifth Circuit to stay the lower ...

Patient Groups File Amicus Brief in Support of DOJ’s Motion for Stay to U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 28, 2023 – Today, patient groups representing millions of individuals with serious health conditions filed an amicus curiae (or friend-of-the-court) brief supporting the Department of Justice (DOJ)’s motion asking the U.S. Court ... to put the lower court’s March 30 ruling on hold citing the devastating impact the decision will have on patient access to critical preventive care services absent a stay.   The groups, including the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, Arthritis Foundation, American Kidney ... for the Fifth Circuit that allowing the District Court’s judgment to take effect would reverse a decade’s worth of progress in improving health outcomes. Given the risk to public health and the imminent harm posed to patients we serve, we urge the Fifth Circuit to stay the lower ...

November Monthly Advocacy Update

  AFFORDABLE CARE ACT UPDATE For more information, visit http://fightcancer.org/healthcare .   Consumer Brochure Now in Print    A few weeks ago I informed ...   The guide, which also discusses provisions of the law as they apply to the Society’s original “4 A’s” that define meaningful health coverage – adequacy, affordability, availability, and administrative simplicity – is part of ACS CAN’s and the Society’s continuing ... Testify About “Mini-Med” Policies The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee held a hearing on December 1 on limited-benefit health plans, also known as “mini-med” policies. Steve Finan, ACS CAN’s senior director of policy, and ACS CAN volunteer Eugene Melville of ...

November Monthly Advocacy Update

  AFFORDABLE CARE ACT UPDATE For more information, visit http://fightcancer.org/healthcare .   Consumer Brochure Now in Print     A few weeks ago I informed ...   The guide, which also discusses provisions of the law as they apply to the Society’s original “4 A’s” that define meaningful health coverage – adequacy, affordability, availability, and administrative simplicity – is part of ACS CAN’s and the Society’s continuing ... Testify About “Mini-Med” Policies The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee held a hearing on December 1 on limited-benefit health plans, also known as “mini-med” policies. Steve Finan, ACS CAN’s senior director of policy, and ACS CAN volunteer Eugene Melville of ...

November Monthly Advocacy Update

  AFFORDABLE CARE ACT UPDATE For more information, visit http://fightcancer.org/healthcare .   Consumer Brochure Now in Print     A few weeks ago I informed ...   The guide, which also discusses provisions of the law as they apply to the Society’s original “4 A’s” that define meaningful health coverage – adequacy, affordability, availability, and administrative simplicity – is part of ACS CAN’s and the Society’s continuing ... Testify About “Mini-Med” Policies The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee held a hearing on December 1 on limited-benefit health plans, also known as “mini-med” policies. Steve Finan, ACS CAN’s senior director of policy, and ACS CAN volunteer Eugene Melville of ...

President's Remarks

... We don't do what's easy. We do what is necessary to move this country forward. For that same reason, we must also address the crushing cost of health care. This is a cost that now causes a bankruptcy in America every 30 seconds. By the end of the year, it could cause 1.5 million Americans to lose ... In the last eight years, premiums have grown four times faster than wages. And in each of these years, 1 million more Americans have lost their health insurance. It is one of the major reasons why small businesses close their doors and corporations ship jobs overseas. And it's one of the ...

Governor Bullock and Senator Daines Go on the Record with Their Positions on Issues to Fight Cancer as Part of National Voter Education Campaign

... that will help us prevent and treat cancer in Montana and nationwide." Specifically, both candidates answered the following questions: Access to Health Care: The decision on whether or not to repeal the Affordable Care Act will be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. If it is overturned, how do you ... like cancer? Saving Lives through Cancer Research : Will you vote for annual increases in cancer research funding for the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute? Rural Health Care : Montanans in rural areas are often diagnosed with cancer at later stages, which have ...

2021 North Carolina 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 North Carolinians touched by cancer and their leadership is vital to defeating this ... support: Ensuring Access to Quality Care Medicaid Expansion : ACS CAN will advocate for low-income individuals and families to have access to health insurance coverage through state Medicaid programs. We will support policies that preserve funding and access to Medicaid for low-income ...

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