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Alliance for a Healthy Montana - Biannual Community Legislative Forums

Join your legislative colleagues   for a conversation with grassroots organizations on health care policies. Light meal served.  Yes. Healthy Communities Matter.       The Alliance for a Healthy Montana is a coalition of healthcare ... providers, patient advocacy groups and voluntaryhealth and tobacco use prevention organizations and otherwho are dedicated t o helping shape a health Montana through specific public policy initiatives.     To RSVP for a forum, simply select from the options below. Tuesday, December  3 ...

Comprehensive Tobacco Control

... current smokers quit but also prevents our children from ever starting a lifetime of addiction to tobacco. PROTECT LOCAL AUTHORITY FOR PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY Local governments are uniquely positioned to meet the needs of people in their communities. They should be able to pass local laws that build on state laws and are proven to promote good health, including any laws intended to protect everyone's right to breathe clean, smoke-free air. SIGNIFICANT TOBACCO TAX INCREASE Regular and ... diseases like cancer. Significant increases to cigarette and tobacco taxes result in substantial revenue increases for states as well as health care cost savings. Comprehensive Tobacco Control ...

ACS CAN and the Connecticut Cancer Partnership Present: The 2024 Dave “Coach” Koch Connecticut Policy Forum Patient Navigation Through the Continuum of Cancer Control

... on Thursday, October 17, 2024 from 8 - 10 AM. Participants will include diverse stakeholders in our communities – patient advocates, payors, health systems, business leaders, and lawmakers to discuss the health disparities in Connecticut and plan to bring policy change to begin to resolve these issues. View the Program for our event here.  ACS ... CAN protects the needs of patients and families, working to ensure that our innovation ecosystem remains strong and everyone has the access to care they need to prevent, detect and fight cancer. 0 ...

KXLH TV, MT: More than $500K Already Behind Pro-Medicaid Expansion Initiative Effort

A coalition of health-care and other groups already has spent or raised more than $500,000 toward qualifying a ballot measure that would extend Medicaid expansion in ...

2023 Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvanians impacted by cancer and their leadership is vital to defeating this ... (ACS CAN) will work with the Pennsylvania General Assembly on legislative and regulatory efforts that provide affordable, adequate access to health insurance includingMedicaid, ensure adequate appropriations funding for lifesaving cancer screening programs, and enact prevention policies ...

Leading Cancer Advocacy Organization Urges North Carolina U.S. Senate Candidates to Make Fighting Cancer a National Priority

... to cancer. ACS CAN also issued an invitation to Cal Cunningham to meet with volunteers. Each individual shared how they have been affected by health care policies in hopes of educating the candidate on key issues. Participants included and spoke to Sen. Tillis about the following: (5:20 – ... dollar that we invest in research I believe has a return on investment. That’s why I’ve supported increases to the National Institute of Health and will continue to.” “We need to recognize this ecosystem of research is critically important for us to get the therapies and the ...

2021 Nevada 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 Nevadans touched by cancer and their leadership is vital to defeating this disease. In ... for your support: Cancer Prevention and Early Detection Breast and Cervical Cancer : ACS CAN will advocate to maintain funding for the Women’s Health Connection (WHC) program, the state breast and cervical cancer screening and treatment program for low-income uninsured and underinsured ...

Proposed Tobacco Tax Increase in President 's Budget Would Save Lives

... and other tobacco products in the FY 2014 budget. A significant increase in the tobacco tax could have a dramatic impact on the public health of our nation by preventing disease and premature deaths and reducing health care costs associated with tobacco use. Raising the price of tobacco products is one of the most effective approaches to encouraging people to quit ...

Massachusetts Lawmakers Approve $1.00 Cigarette Tax Increase Making the State's Excise Tax Third Highest in the Nation

... the Society’s Director of Government Relations in Massachusetts, “To effectively fight cancer, we need to increase access to quality health care, and put an end to the suffering and disease caused by tobacco.  With passage of this tobacco tax increase, the Governor and the Legislature ... that the tax will generate at least $150 million each year in revenue to support the Massachusetts Commonwealth Care Fund in delivering health insurance for low-income residents, whose smoking rates are more than double that of the general population. Currently, the state spends ...

2026 Florida Legislative Agenda

... 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 Floridians impacted by cancer and their leadership is vital to defeating this disease. ... Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) will work with the Florida Legislature on initiatives to provide affordable, adequate access to health insurance including Medicaid, and to ensure adequate funding for cancer research, lifesaving cancer screening programs, and comprehensive ...

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