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... quit smoking. "New Jersey will pay a high price with more children and teenagers smoking, more lives lost to tobacco and higher smoke-related health care costs, said Blair Horner, Vice President for Advocacy, American Cancer Society of NY & NJ.  "By failing to meet the CDC's expert ... year more than 11,000 New Jerseyans will die from smoking-related diseases. In addition tobacco use costs the state an estimated $3.2 billion in health care bills.     NJ ranks among nation's worst in anti-smoking efforts ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. May 9, 2016 The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACSξCAN) filed comments with the Department of Health and Human Services today on the Medicare Part B Drug Payment Model Proposed Rule. A statement from ACS CAN President Chris Hansen on the ... project is to improve patient quality and lower spending, in its current design the model could actually result in cancer patients getting care in higher cost, less desirable settings. We are exceedingly concerned that the scope and breadth of the proposal go far beyond a demonstration ... affiliate of the American Cancer Society, supports evidence-based policy and legislative solutions designed to eliminate cancer as a major health problem. ACS CAN works to encourage elected officials and candidates to make cancer a top national priority. ACS CAN gives ordinary people ...

... veterans and children. Federal lawmakers are considering a bill that includes deep cuts to Medicaid. Such devastating cuts would put essential health services at risk for millions of people nationwide and for the more than 1.2 million children and adults in Colorado who rely on Medicaid for lifesaving health care -- including prenatal care for pregnant mothers, prescriptions for limited-income seniors, well-child visits for small children, and cancer ...

... and under-insured for colon cancer.   This remains our funding priority. Access to Healthcare LD 323: "An Act To Improve Transparency in the Health Insurance Markets" is the result of our collaboration in the Maine Voices for Coverage campaign.   It's intent is to make it easier for ... deference to another bill, submitted by the Commissioner of Insurance which did much of the same things. LD 1091: "An Act To Reduce the Cost of Health Insurance" was voted "ought not to pass." LD 1228: "Resolve, To Direct Action on Health Disparities of the Passamaquody Tribe and Washington ... as amended," and I do not have the amendment. Several other pain management bills I have been following have been killed. Congress:   Health Care Reform       ( This is a new addition to our weekly update, but with more GRA time dedicated to it, and as it moves up the organizational ...