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ACS CAN Applauds Iowa Legislature for Passing Budget that Prioritizes Cancer Prevention

... The Iowa Legislature approved a budget bill today that includes initiatives supported by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) to improve cancer prevention, early detection and treatment. The budget includes funding for Iowa’s tobacco prevention and cessation programs, which are proven to save lives and dollars. Tobacco use continues to be the number one cause of preventable disease and death in the U.S. In fact, smoking leads to a third of all cancer deaths in our country.  Smoking currently costs Iowa close to $1.3 billion in health care costs each year and claims more than 5,100 ...

Families Affected by Cancer Gather Across the Country to Watch State of the Union

... priority. Cancer advocates will gather across the country tonight to watch President Obama lay out his legislative agenda during his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress, sending a message to the White House and Congress that reform needs to remain high on the national to-do list. The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), the advocacy affiliate of the American Cancer Society, is organizing a virtual watch party on-line as well as local in-person watch parties ... by refocusing the system to emphasize prevention, ending the practice of denying coverage because of pre-existing conditions, limiting the cost burden on families by providing care that costs less and covers more, and emphasizing patients’ quality of life. “Families affected by ...

New Report Shows State Lawmakers Can Do More to Prevent, Reduce Cancer

... solutions to prevent and fight cancer, according to a report released today by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN). How Do You Measure Up?: A Progress Report on State Legislative Activity to Reduce Cancer Incidence and Mortality grades states on the strength of evidence-based policies that help to prevent cancer, which kills roughly 1,670 people a day nationwide, forces patients to pay nearly $4 billion in out-of-pocket expenses every year and in 2015 cost the country more than $80 billion in direct medical expenditures.  The report, an annual snapshot of key state policies, shows many states ...

ACS CAN Statement on HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius ' Resignation Announcement

WASHINGTON, D.C. April 11, 2014 Following is a statement from the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) on the announcement by Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius that she is resigning her post: Secretary Sebelius led the massive effort to implement critical ... tests, treatments and follow-up care, and most people insured through their employer now benefit from added protections such as low-or no-cost preventive services and a ban on annual and lifetime limits on the dollar amount of care a plan will cover. The law 's implementation, like ...

ACS CAN Files Amicus Brief Opposing New Short-Term Plans Policy

The impact for cancer patients could be devastating. That is the argument ACS CAN is making in an amicus brief filed today in U.S. District Court. The brief is supporting a lawsuit filed by the Association for Community Affiliated Plans that objects to the recent Trump Administration policy allowing for the expansion of what’s known as short-term health plans. Officially called short-term, limited duration plans, these health plans allow insurance companies to ... cancer patients and survivors, denying coverage for cancer treatment or refusing to insure those impacted by cancer altogether. The expansion of these plans is expected to weaken the individual insurance market, leading to higher insurance premiums and costs for cancer patients and ...

Statement of Dick Woodruff on the Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson Proposal

Statement of Dick Woodruff Senior Vice President of Federal Advocacy American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network “Hearing to Consider the ... of the Committee. My name is Dick Woodruff, Senior Vice President for Federal Advocacy of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN). I appreciate the opportunity to testify today on behalf of cancer patients and other patients living with chronic diseases on the proposal ... to get screened for cancer and thus are more ikely to have their cancer diagnosed at an advanced stage when survival is less likely and the cost of care more expensive. 3 The Graham-Cassidy Bill Could Gut Pre-Existing Condition Protections For many years, a cancer diagnosis made it ...

Jane Leo to Serve as ACS CAN Oregon Government Relations Director

SALEM, Oregon —— Jane Leo has been named the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) Government Relations Director for Oregon. She will lead ACS CAN’s efforts to advance legislation and public policies to reduce the cancer burden, specifically ending the sale of flavored and menthol tobacco in her home state. "I'm looking forward to the opportunity to fight for every Oregonian impacted by cancer,” Leo said. “Tobacco use has cost Oregon too many lives and too much money; stopping the next generation from ever starting is one of the most important things we can do to ...

Reducing the Toll of Tobacco a Priority for American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network in 2018

Columbia, SC – January 29, 2018 – As lawmakers dive into the new year the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) is looking ahead to what public health initiatives can be accomplished in 2018. South Carolina has a long way to go when it comes to tobacco control issues. Each year in South Carolina 2,500 kids under the age of eighteen become new daily smokers, 7,200 adults die from smoking and annual health care costs in South Carolina directly caused by smoking are $1.9 billion.  Don’t worry, ACS CAN has solutions. A one-time increase in the cigarette tax by $1.50 per pack would save thousands of lives and would raise millions of dollars for the state. The increase would be a win-win for South Carolina. A $1.50 increase would help 37,900 ...

State Tobacco Tax Increases: Explanations and Sources for Projections of New Revenues & Benefits

  STATE TOBACCO TAX INCREASES: EXPLANATIONS AND SOURCES FOR PROJECTIONS OF NEW REVENUES & BENEFITS   The economic model developed jointly by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (TFK), the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), and Economics for Health [1] (housed at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) projects the increase in state revenues, public health benefits, and health care cost savings resulting from increases in state cigarette tax rates. The projections are updated annually. Calculations are based on economic ...

ACS CAN volunteer shares cancer story at U.S. Senate committee meeting

... breast cancer for a second time eight years later, she wasnŠ—Èt so lucky. Although she had health insurance, it only covered a tiny fraction of her treatment. She would have to pay out of pocket for the mastectomies and hysterectomy she needed, along with chemotherapy and most of her ... the health care laws. After telling her cancer story, Stacy told Senators that although she received treatment that saved her life, it came at a cost. She is so in debt from her medical bills she may need to file for bankruptcy this year. But, Stacy said, thanks the Affordable Care Act she can live her life with the comfort of knowing that she will have access health care in the future. Š—“I now have peace of mind knowing that, in ...

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