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Veterans Day Marks Time To Honor Alabama Vets and Close the Coverage Gap

... trying to cover medical costs related to a catastrophic health issue. That experience shaped my lifelong dedication to recognize the importance of health care. My 30 years serving in the U.S. Navy furthered my passion. Once out of service, my brothers and sisters in uniform are too often left behind when it comes to health care. That’s why on this Veterans Day, I am ... have access to care or coverage. Most people don’t realize, to qualify for care at the VA, with rare exceptions, you must have a condition you can prove dates back to your active-duty service. In fact, only about  20 percent  of insured veterans get coverage through the VA. Meanwhile, ...

Wyoming Cancer Advocates Mark American Cancer Society’s Annual Great American Smokeout by Calling for a $1 Tobacco Tax Increase

... Cancer Society’s 42 nd annual Great American Smokeout today by urging the Legislature to pass a $1 tobacco tax increase in 2018. Lawmakers can help people quit tobacco successfully and protect youth from a lifetime of deadly addiction by passing strong tobacco control legislation and policies, including regular and significant tobacco tax increases.   Tobacco ... including chewing tobacco. This parity on other tobacco products will generate additional state revenue, as well as public health benefits and cost savings. In early December, the Legislature’s Joint Revenue Committee decides whether to move this tobacco tax bill forward in the 2018 ...

Broken Health Care System Fosters Treatment Delays and Strained Finances for Many Cancer Patients, According to New Poll

... at some point since their diagnosis, according to a national poll released today by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN). The unique poll of families affected by cancer also found that more than 40 percent had trouble affording care in the past few years. More than one in five families has used up all or most of its savings and one in seven has incurred thousands of dollars in medical debt because of high health care costs. The survey also found that ...

Public Health Groups Laud Proposed $1.50 Increase in Tobacco Tax To Protect Kids, Save Lives and Raise Needed Revenue

... on other tobacco products such as smokeless tobacco.” Health organizations including the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), American Heart Association, American Lung Association and the Campaign for Tobacco-Free strongly support the $1.50 per pack tobacco tax increase designed to keep cigarettes and a vast array of other tobacco products out of the hands of kids, while also lowering health costs from tobacco use and restoring critically important tobacco prevention and education ...

Moving Our Mission, One State at a Time

... the COVID-19 pandemic continues to dominate our daily lives and continuing the movement to highlight systemic racism. As patient advocates, we can add another “remarkable” to the list: within a five-week period this summer in two states where elected officials had been resistant, ... was accomplished: These mark the fifth and sixth states since 2017 to pass Medicaid expansion via ballot measure, following in the footsteps of Maine, Idaho, Nebraska and Utah. Notably, policymakers in each of these states had historically been reluctant to expand access to care through Medicaid. By no means is a ballot measure always the most ...

Varmus Would Bring Unparalleled Experience, Perspective to NCI

Washington, D.C. – May 17, 2010 – “The cancer community applauds President Obama’s nomination of Dr. Harold Varmus as director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Dr. Varmus’ scientific leadership and experience would be an enormous ... a critical time for the NCI, which received a boost in funding last year after several years when funding failed to keep up with the increasing cost of research. We must sustain this investment to meet President Obama’s commitment to double NCI’s funding over the next eight years and to ... birthdays this year. To learn more about us or to get help, call us any time, day or night, at 1-800-227-2345 or visit cancer.org. ACS CAN, the nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy affiliate of the American Cancer Society, supports evidence-based policy and legislative solutions ...

2025 Legislative Priorities

... Legislative Priorities   Victory in the fight against 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 Alabamians impacted by cancer and their leadership is vital to defeating this disease. In 2025 the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) will work with the state legislature on legislative and regulatory efforts that provide affordable, adequate access to health insurance ... cessation benefit that covers individual, group, and telephone counseling and all FDA-approved tobacco cessation medications without cost-sharing or other barriers to accessing care.  Local Control  ACS CAN supports the authority of local governments to pass local policies that ...

Presidential Cancer Forums Emphasize Need for Presidential Commitment to Cancer Fight

... D.C. -- August 27, 2007 -- Presidential forums on cancer scheduled for today and tomorrow in Cedar Rapids, Iowa serve to elevate the importance of cancer on the national agenda and offer an opportunity for all presidential candidates to commit that they will make fighting cancer, the number ... in addressing the cancer crisis," said John R. Seffrin, Ph.D., chief executive officer of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN). "Deaths from cancer have declined for the second consecutive year in the United States, but 1.4 Americans will be newly diagnosed with cancer ... and Prevention’s National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program, which provides uninsured and underinsured women with free or low-cost mammograms and Pap tests. This program is funded at a level serving only one out of five eligible women nationwide. No woman should be denied ...

New Jersey Budget Protects Funding for Cancer Programs but Fails to Include Cigarette Tax Increase  

... it fails to include the increase in the cigarette tax proposed by Governor Murphy. The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) calls on the legislature to prioritize efforts to reduce tobacco’s deadly toll on New Jersey by adopting the $1.65 per pack cigarette tax increase before the end of this year. ACS CAN also asks the Legislature to: Prohibit the sale of all flavored tobacco products; Prohibit smoking in all casinos, and; Require Medicaid to cover FDA approved smoking cessation products. American ...

3-2-12 Affordable Care Act Update

... any service required by the Affordable Care Act if they object based on undefined "religious beliefs or moral convictions." The implications of this provision could result in coverage denials of life-saving preventive services such as mammograms or tobacco cessation based on employer discretion.  The amendment failed 51-48.   Read ACS CAN's letter and press release opposing the amendment: ...

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