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Volunteers Advocate for Quality of Life Bills

... has established a Quality of Life Committee in Pennsylvania to encourage our members of Congress to advance federal legislation on palliative care.  Among our requests is that Congressman Joe Pitts, whose district covers parts of Lancaster, Berks and Chester Counties and who chairs the Health Subcommittee of the Energy and Commerce Committee, hold a hearing on the legislation.  These bills are the Patient Centered Quality Care for Life Act (H.R.1666) and the Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act (H.R. 1339).  Members of the committee include Valerie ...

ACS CAN Urges Gov. Justice to Oppose Graham-Cassidy Repeal Bill

... States.   This letter follows up on my earlier two communications this year regarding federal legislation to repeal and replace the current health care law.  As I’m sure you know, the Senate is now considering a proposal offered by Senators Graham and Cassidy, and we want to provide you ... sharing subsidies effectively shutting down the marketplace created under current law. Finally, the bill would roll back important essential health benefit protections, and potentially open the door to annual and lifetime caps on coverage, endangering access to critical care for millions ...

ACS CAN Urges Gov. Hutchinson to Rethink Support of Graham-Cassidy Repeal Bill; Warns of Negative Impacts on Cancer Patients and Survivors in Arkansas

... States.   This letter follows up on my earlier two communications this year regarding federal legislation to repeal and replace the current health care law.  ACS CAN was disappointed that yesterday, you publicly supported the proposal offered by Senators Graham and Cassidy. We would like to ... sharing subsidies effectively shutting down the marketplace created under current law. Finally, the bill would roll back important essential health benefit protections, and potentially open the door to annual and lifetime caps on coverage, endangering access to critical care for millions ...

Letter to Governor Phil Scott regarding Impact of Graham-Cassidy Proposal on Cancer Patients

... States.   This letter follows up on my earlier two communications this year regarding federal legislation to repeal and replace the current health care law.  As I’m sure you know, the Senate is now considering a proposal offered by Senators Graham and Cassidy, and we want to provide you ... sharing subsidies effectively shutting down the marketplace created under current law. Finally, the bill would roll back important essential health benefit protections, and potentially open the door to annual and lifetime caps on coverage, endangering access to critical care for millions ...

Sign our petition! Ask MA lawmakers to support quality of life

We have the opportunity to make life easier for thousands of Massachusetts residents living with cancer. Palliative care provides an extra layer of support to cancer patients and sees the person beyond their treatment. It brings trained specialists together with ... and improve quality of life during serious illness like cancer. It's about TREATING THE PATIENT as well as the disease (a big shift in focus for health care delivery). And it works. Ask your Massachusetts legislators to support HB 2104 "An Act to improve quality of life by expanding access to ...

Montana Cancer Summit Speaker Bios

... Inc. Dr. Whitney Jones is a Gastroenterologist, a former Clinical Professor of Medicine and current adjunct Professor in the School of Public Health and information services at the University of Louisville.  He is a founding member and currently serves as Chair of the Kentucky Colon ... research in oncology as a postdoctoral scientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder until 2005.      Suzanne Held, PhD, Professor, Health & Human Development, Montana State University Suzanne Held, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Health & Human Development at ... and successful experiences in community-based participatory research addressing health concerns such as cancer and chronic illness self-care management. She has numerous publications and has provided presentations nationwide regarding this work. Alma always shares that her passion ...

"Well I guess she's just going to die isn't she."

... company you called due to a pre-existing condition. And, for the truly tragic part of this story, imagine that your wife dies because a lack of health insurance meant the cancer was caught late and since you didn't have a few hundred thousand dollars handy, she never got the treatment that ... might have saved her life. Now, you know the life of Dan Brodrick. His story is featured in ACS CAN's new television ad . Still not sure we need health care reform? You can watch the ad on our home page - fightcancer.org - and on our You Tube channel - youtube.com/acscan . Watch the ad and then ...

Due Process Rights

  The JAI filed its first friend of the court brief in May 2009, partnering with the ACS South Atlantic Division and other public health groups in David Brooks v. Maryland Health Insurance Program (MHIP) . MHIP plays a critical role in providing gap-filling coverage for people with debilitating medical conditions but no ability to obtain coverage in the private market. As one of 35 state high risk pools, MHIP provides access to health care and acts as a vital safety net for people with serious medical conditions, like cancer, but lack the means to pay for care. MHIP cut off Mr. ...

ACS CAN Analysis Shows Step Therapy Protocols Included in Commercial Plans in New Jersey

... would ensure that when step therapy is used in New Jersey it is safe for patients, clinically grounded, and transparent to patients and health care providers. Step therapy policies, also known as fail first, are used by health insurers to force patients to try medications that insurance companies choose, requiring the patient to “fail first” before gaining ...

February Advocacy Round Up

... year. The bill, which passed, cuts federal spending by almost $100 billion, and includes a 5% cut of $1.6 billion to the National Institutes of Health budget. The legislation also slashed the budget at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) by 21%, which includes cuts to ... in the Senate strategy, as we have very supportive Senators in both states, but we will keep you posted as the situation develops.  Affordable Care Act - New Threats, New Alliances In addition to cutting cancer research and prevention programs, HR1 was also used to block funding to pay ... CR passed that would greatly complicate the law’s implementation, including language affecting the development of regulations to govern the health benefit exchanges and determine the essential benefits package. Amendments also passed that would deny funding to enforce the new medical ...

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