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Diverse Group of More Than 50 Organizations Demand Plan for Health Care Access Fund

... in a letter to lawmakers to show support for maintaining the Health Care Access Fund. “This funding is critical to the health and wellbeing of so many vulnerable Minnesotans,” said Emily Myatt, ACS CAN Minnesota interim government relations director. “We can’t cross our fingers and hope for the best. We need to find a way to cover these ... Minnesotans depend on public health care programs that are funded in part by the Health Care Access Fund. The provider tax is the largest source of revenue to the Health Care Access Fund but is scheduled to sunset in December 2019. Allowing the provider tax to expire without identifying ...

New Poll: Overwhelming Majority of Georgia Residents Support Medicaid Expansion

ATLANTA, GA – October 11, 2022  – A recent  poll  by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) shows strong support among Georgia registered voters for increasing and protecting access to affordable health coverage, including 70% in favor of Medicaid expansion.  The poll findings showed 8 in 10 (80%) voters in Georgia saying a candidate’s position on health care is important to them when deciding who to vote for with the same number in agreement that everyone in Georgia, regardless of their income, where they live, their race, gender or immigration status should be able to get affordable health care. Roughly 6 in 10 (60%) ...

ACS CAN Urges Gov. Justice to Oppose Graham-Cassidy Repeal Bill

  September 19, 2017     The Honorable Jim Justice Office of the Governor 1900 Kanawha Street Charleston, WVA 25305     Dear Governor Justice,   The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), the advocacy affiliate of the American Cancer Society, is the nation’s largest patient advocacy organization, dedicated to eliminating ... in Medicaid support to your state over the next decade and beyond.  In addition, the bill eliminates the marketplace premium subsidies and cost sharing subsidies effectively shutting down the marketplace created under current law. Finally, the bill would roll back important essential ...

Legislative Action Needed to Reduce the Burden of Cancer on Buckeyes

Statement from American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) Government Relations Director Leo Almeida   COLUMBUS, OHIO  – “As lawmakers dive into the 2023 legislative session, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) urges legislators to prioritize passing legislation to ease the burden of cancer on Buckeyes.  “ACS CAN calls on the legislature to increase access to biomarker testing, a game changer in the fight against cancer ... the right time,’ precision medicine has played a critical role in improving cancer outcomes. Despite its benefits, health insurance coverage of biomarker testing has not kept pace with innovations in treatment.  “Furthermore, copay accumulator legislation unanimously passed the House ...

Legislative Action Needed to Reduce the Burden of Cancer on Buckeyes

Statement from American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) Government Relations Director Leo Almeida   COLUMBUS, OHIO – “As lawmakers dive into the 2023 legislative session, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) urges legislators to prioritize passing legislation to ease the burden of cancer on Buckeyes.  “ACS CAN calls on the legislature to increase access to biomarker testing, a game changer in the fight against cancer ... the right time,’ precision medicine has played a critical role in improving cancer outcomes. Despite its benefits, health insurance coverage of biomarker testing has not kept pace with innovations in treatment.  “Furthermore, copay accumulator legislation unanimously passed the House ...

Extension of Unique Prevention & Research Agency Maintains Texas’ Role in Cancer Fight

... on Friday helped ensure the state would continue leading the fight against cancer and that new life-saving treatments would be available to tens of thousands of Texans fighting this deadly disease. Senate Bill 81 extends the sunset review date by two years to ensure that the Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas can expend all the funding that was approved by voters in 2007. With a cap of $300 million annually, CPRIT would have been unable to use its full ...

ACS CAN Releases Cancer Fighting Priorities for 2019 for New York

... with cancer each year Victory in the fight against cancer requires bold new public policies that promote cancer prevention, early detection of cancer, and expand access to quality, affordable health care.   Cancer Screenings Save Lives All New Yorkers deserve to have access to a ... to Palliative Care Services for cancer patients Ensure patient access to medications is not hindered by movement of medications to a higher cost tier in the formulary during a plan year. Allow patients on multiple prescription medications to “synchronize” the date on which they get ... to administer and effectively utilize such funds.   For more information, contact:   Julie Hart, New York Government Relations Director, ACS CAN   [email protected]     518.505.7833 ACS CAN Releases Cancer Fighting Priorities for 2019 for New York ...

Trade Negotiators Agree to Provision Ending Tobacco Industry Exploitation of International Agreements

... approved today by negotiators in Atlanta reportedly includes a provision supported by public health groups that would protect the authority of member countries to enact lifesaving tobacco control measures. The provision, offered by U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman during ... companies from using the agreement to attack laws intended to reduce disease and death caused by tobacco use,” said Chris Hansen, president of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), which has strongly supported including such a provision. “The international community cannot allow the efforts of countries to protect ...

Cancer Advocates Deliver 56,000 Petitions to Congressional Offices Urging Passage of Meaningful Health Care Reform

WASHINGTON – March 19, 2010 – Volunteers from the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) this week have delivered 56,000 signed petitions to congressional offices across the country urging lawmakers from both political parties to ... opportunity and pass meaningful health reform. Over the past three weeks ACS CAN worked with groups representing patients, consumers and people of faith to gather signatures on petitions calling for health reform that improves access to quality coverage and lowers the costs of health ... nation’s health care 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.   “The sobering reality ...

Lawmakers Take Critical Step to Revolutionize Cancer Treatment in Florida, State’s Second Leading Cause of Death

... to receive biomarker testing – a routine step in accessing personalized medicine treatments that have become an increasingly important part of cancer care in recent years due to their significant impact in improving survivorship and quality of life.   Progress in the fight against cancer has been in part due to advances in biomarker testing, which allows physicians to match patients ... treatment for their specific cancer. Unfortunately, not all Floridians are benefiting from the latest advancements in biomarker testing, which can contribute to disparities in access to the most appropriate and effective treatments.   “Today’s legislation creates a path forward to ...

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