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3-24-11 Affordable Care Act Update

One Year Later: Provisions of the Law Already Helping Cancer Patients   Timed to coincide with yesterday’s one-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, ACS CAN launched the Affordable Care Act Quiz , a new, interactive tool that can be found on fightcancer.org . This short, educational quiz tests your ...

3-24-11 Affordale Care Act Update

One Year Later: Provisions of the Law Already Helping Cancer Patients   Timed to coincide with yesterday’s one-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, ACS CAN launched the Affordable Care Act Quiz , a new, interactive tool that can be found on fightcancer.org . This short, educational quiz tests your ...

2-5-10-This Week in Health Care Reform

... reform legislation forward.   As always, we remain committed to securing meaningful health care reform in this Congress to address the needs of cancer patients and their families.   GRASSROOTS UPDATE   ACS CAN is keeping up the pressure on legislators, urging them to finish the job on meaningful health care reform.   Earlier this week, we began ... patch-through calls to targeted Senators – Democrat, Republican and Independent - and completed 744 patch-throughs in just the first two days of calling. We expect this rate to greatly increase as we continue calls for the next two weeks.   On Tuesday, ACS CAN hosted its monthly State ...

Patients and Families Take Cancer Fight to the Roundhouse

... Campaign Express  SANTA FE, N.M. – February 9, 2015 – Cancer survivors, caregivers and healthcare professionals from across the state, many of them “riding the rails” to get to the New Mexico Capitol today, had a simple request to lawmakers:  Make the cancer fight a top policy ... day-long activities that started with a visit to Governor Susanna Martinez’s office.  The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) gives people touched by cancer a way to make a difference by teaching them how to make their voices heard.  Once a year, as the legislative session gets underway, volunteer advocates head to the Cancer Awareness Day at the Capitol and many of them pack a car on the New Mexico Rail Runner as they rally together in preparation for the day’s activities. Media were invited to ride along ...

D.C. Council Vote on Smoke-Free Bill A Step in the Right Direction

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- December 6, 2005 -- The D.C. Council today voted 12-1 in favor of a smokefree law that would protect thousands of District workers and patrons from the dangers of secondhand smoke. A second and final vote on the bill could take place later this month or in ... contains provisions that are of concern to public health advocates, including a hardship waiver that would allow restaurants and bars that can show an economic harm from the law to apply for a waiver from the smoking ban, and an implementation date of Jan. 1, 2007 for brew pubs, clubs, ...

New Report: Colorado Gets Mixed Results on Cancer-Fighting Public Policies

... policies and legislation to prevent cancer, according to a new report released today by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN). In the latest edition of How Do You Measure Up?: A Progress Report on State Legislative Activity to Reduce Cancer Incidence and Mortality, Colorado met the policy benchmark in three of the eight issue areas and has room for improvement in two. The state fell short in three other areas, including indoor tanning restrictions for ...

Letter to Gov. Cuomo on TCP

The following is the text of a letter from Donald Distasio, American Cancer Society of New York and New Jersey Chief Executive Officer, to Governor Andrew Cuomo.  The letter was hand-delivered on March 18, 2011. A PDF version of ... by increases in adult and teenage tobacco use rates. There is every possibility that a comprehensive, strategically-designed intervention can reverse these setbacks, but an adequate level of activity must be maintained.   This will be done if the appropriation in your Executive ...

2021 SC Cancer Action Day: Suits and Sneakers

Welcome to the 2021 SC Cancer Action Day: Suits and Sneakers webpage where you will find all of the information you need to prepare for the virtual event!  Dates and times:    Thursday, January 28th 6:30 - 7:30pm  Training for SC ... from Legislator:  Tara and Rep. Gilda Cobb-Hunter 3:35 – 3:45 Closing:  Tara, Pansy and Guest Speakers     Participant Packet  SC CAN Issue Overview and Ask 2021.pdf SC Tobacco Preemption Talking Points .docx CCPN Legislative Brief-2021.pdf SC Hook, Line, and Sinker.pdf SC: 2021 Cancer Action Day Power Hour Instructions.docx 2020 Cost of Cancer Facts & Figures.pdf SC Best Practices for Your Letter to the Editor.pdf Survivor Views COVID Access Polling Memo ...

Health Advocates Commend Assembly Action on Lifesaving Tobacco Prevention Measure Following Christie’s Conditional Veto

... NJ –July 31, 2017 – The New Jersey Assembly has passed a lifesaving bill (A3338) that would dedicate one percent, approximately $7 million, of cigarette and tobacco tax dollars, to the New Jersey tobacco control program. This action follows Governor Christie’s conditional veto of the earlier version of the bill. The conditional veto simply sent the legislation back to the Assembly and the Senate with a later date of ... This funding is a first step toward saving lives in New Jersey. The advocates included: American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN); Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids; American Heart Association/American Stroke Association, American Lung Association and New Jersey Prevention ...

6-9-11 Affordable Care Act Update

Federal Update   ACS CAN filed comments this week with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on the proposed Medicare regulation creating Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). ACOs, which were mandated in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), are groups of providers that receive bonus payments for delivering more integrated and coordinated care for Medicare beneficiaries. ACS CAN’s comments acknowledge the potential of ACOs to improve the health and quality of care of cancer patients, and encourage the administration to improve the regulation to better benefit ...

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