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... Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) shows strong support among Kansas registered voters for increasing and protecting access to affordable health coverage, including 72% in favor of expanding KanCare, the state’s Medicaid program, and 46% who strongly support it. Support for ... and Republicans (56%) supporting expansion. The poll also found nearly 9 in 10 registered voters (87%) in Kansas say a candidate’s position on health care is important to them when deciding who to vote for, including 40% who say a candidate’s position is very important to them. Supermajorities ...

... shows that registered voters in Pennsylvania strongly agree that the state should accept federal funds that are available to broaden access to health coverage through Medicaid. By a margin of 65 percent to 25 percent, Pennsylvania voters support such a move, which would provide more 520,000 low-income Pennsylvanians with access to lifesaving preventive care and treatments for cancer and other serious diseases. The poll, conducted by a bipartisan pair of polling firms, Perry Undem and GS Strategy ... to no less than 90 percent of the costs. “Pennsylvania has an opportunity to provide thousands of currently uninsured people with lifesaving health coverage through Medicaid, and public sentiment is decidedly in favor of using available federal dollars to pay for it,” said Diane ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP) held a hearing on the Opioid Crisis Response Act of 2018. Included in the proposal are ... pain from cancer and other serious illnesses.   Specifically, ACS CAN supports measures that would empower the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to focus on the development and approval of new, non-addictive pain treatments as well ... will continue to urge lawmakers to work toward a balanced approach that will not preclude cancer patients and survivors from accessing the pain care they need. “The proposal considered today includes several provisions that would strike that important balance of reining in abuse, while ...

... requirement on the backs of middle-income families.  The groups support repealing the burdensome reporting requirement passed in the Affordable Care Act, but are concerned that paying for the repeal by requiring consumers to pay back premium subsidies would discourage individuals and families from enrolling in health insurance coverage through state-based exchanges, and could result in an additional 250,000 uninsured. The full text of the joint letter can be viewed here: http://bit.ly/hx9iKj . ACS CAN, the leading voice of patients in the health care debate, is working to ensure that the Affordable Care Act is implemented as strongly as possible for cancer patients, survivors and ...