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Supporting LGBTQ+ Health Equity Through Public Policy

At the American Cancer Society and the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), health equity means that everyone has a fair and just opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer. As part of our deep commitment to advancing health equity, ACS CAN launched new policy recommendations to support equitable cancer care and eliminate cancer disparities in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer/Questioning (LGBTQ+) communities.  LGBTQ+ individuals face ...

Ensure Access to Quality Care

... legislators and the Administration to ensure that the state continues providing low-income Pennsylvanians access to comprehensive and affordable health care coverage, as provided under federal health care law. Preserving access to health coverage through our state Medicaid program will ensure that more residents have access to preventive ...

Ensuring Access to Quality Care

• Medicaid Expansion: ACS CAN will advocate for low-income individuals and families to have access to health insurance coverage and non-emergent transportation services through the state Medicaid program. We will advocate for full Medicaid expansion for Floridians at 138% of the federal poverty level.   • Affordable, Adequate Health Insurance: ACS CAN will advocate for policies that ensure access to quality, affordable and comprehensive health insurance including ... insurance coverage for biomarker testing is failing to keep pace with innovations and advancements in treatment.   Ensuring Access to Quality Care ...

Health Coverage thatŠ—'s Easy to Understand

... you information about the product and enable you to compare it with other brands based on features and price. This has never been the case with health insurance. Today, when consumers pick a health coverage plan they are given a long document filled with complicated jargon that is virtually impossible for them to understand. An important provision in the Affordable Care Act, known as the Summary of Benefits and Coverage provision, was written to change that. The provision requires insurance companies to ...

Patients, Health Professionals and Public Health Groups Warn Against Tobacco Preemption Bills

COLUMBIA, SC – April 6, 2021– Today, over 11 national and local public health groups issued a letter to members of the South Carolina General Assembly, urging them to oppose bills H. 3681 and S. 498. The recently ... attributed to Beth Johnson, ACS CAN Government Relations Director for South Carolina. “If enacted, such legislation would deny parents, public health officials, community leaders and local elected officials the necessary means to address today’s growing youth tobacco epidemic. “The ... affiliate, ACS CAN has successfully advocated for billions of dollars in cancer research funding, expanded access to quality affordable health care, and made workplaces, including restaurants and bars, smoke-free. As we mark our 20th anniversary, we’re more determined than ever to stand ...

Ensuring access to quality care

... will work to ensure Medicaid enrollees have adequate access and coverage and will oppose proposals that create barriers or reduce access to care for cancer patients, survivors, and those who could be diagnosed with cancer.  Prescription Drug Access: ACS CAN will advocate for ... prescription drugs are clear, efficient and patient-friendly while also allowing for exceptions when appropriate.    Affordable, Adequate Health Insurance: ACS CAN will advocate for policies that ensure access to quality, affordable and comprehensive health insurance including Medicaid and will support efforts to curb the availability of inadequate health plans.  Medicaid Expansion: ACS CAN ...

New National Television Ad Highlights Need for Health Care Reform through Experience of Man Who Lost Wife to Cancer

WASHINGTON -- September 25, 2009 -- In an effort to focus attention on patients over politics in the health care reform debate, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) is running a national television advertisement that illustrates the ... The ad is intended to refocus the debate on those who need comprehensive reform the most - patients - and to emphasize that Congress must pass health care reform this year that improves the health care system for families touched by cancer and other life-threatening chronic diseases.  ...

Executive Orders Offer Critical Health Coverage Options for Cancer Patients During Ongoing Pandemic and Strengthens Patient Access to Care

Washington, D.C.—Today President Biden is expected to issue several executive orders aimed at expanding potential health coverage options for those who have lost health insurance due to the coronavirus pandemic, and rollback current policies that harm patient access to coverage. Included among the orders is ... through the federal exchange and orders to reduce hurdles many face when trying to enroll in Medicaid or health insurance through the Affordable Care Act. It also directs agencies to examine policies that undermine the insurance marketplace and make coverage less accessible, as well as to ...

House Lawmakers Line Up Mississippi to be the Next State to Expand Access to Health Care to More Mississippians

... House vote is proof that state legislators understand the urgency of passing legislation that creates a Mississippi-based solution to increase health care access.   Below is a statement on behalf of Lisa Lacasse, president of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN):   “House lawmakers’ passage of Healthy Mississippi Works, HB 1725, comes at a critical time for health care access in Mississippi, providing a path to affordable health care for hundreds of thousands of people caught in the Medicaid coverage ...

Arizona Cancer Patients, Survivors and Advocates Tell Congress the Time to Make Health Care More Affordable is Past Due

... – Last night, cancer advocates in Phoenix kicked off National Cancer Survivor Month with an important message to Congress: affordable cancer care is PAST DUE. American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) volunteers gathered on Thursday for an evening of celebration and advocacy, urging lawmakers to pass current proposals to make permanent increased subsidies for to purchase private health coverage on the marketplace, close the Medicaid coverage gap and cap out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for patients in Medicare Part D ... If we want to be able to celebrate that more of our friends and neighbors are surviving this disease, our lawmakers need to act now and make health care more affordable," said Vanessa Ramirez, cancer survivor, ACS CAN volunteer and board member for ACS Latinos Contra el Cancer. More ...

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