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... CONTACT: Ray Carson American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network Cell: 813-300-6555 Email: [email protected]   Governor Signs Palliative Care Bill   RICHMOND, Va.  (May 17, 2017) –  Earlier today on the Virginia Commonwealth University campus, Governor Terry McAuliffe ... a bill-signing ceremony for Virginia’s Palliative Care Information and Resources Bill.  This legislation requires the Virginia Department of Health to use their website to make information and resources on palliative care available to the public, health care professionals and health care facilities. The bill is scheduled to go into effect on July 1.    Palliative care is a fast-growing ...

  Below is this week’s update on the Affordable Care Act. As always, thank you for all you do every day to support laws and policies that help cancer patients and their families   Now Available ... the guide is also available through Ariba from the Society’s Nationwide Distribution Center. ACS CAN worked with Corporate Communications and Health Promotions staff at the National Home Office on the guide, which explains the Affordable Care Act through the “cancer lens” and features ... disease.   The guide, which also discusses provisions of the law as they apply to the Society’s original “4 A’s” that define meaningful health coverage – adequacy, affordability, availability, and administrative simplicity – marks a significant step forward in our efforts to ...

Access to health care is critical to reducing suffering and death from cancer and other chronic illnesses. Yet too many patients face barriers accessing the ... their stories below. Have you or a loved one faced cost or coverage barriers to accessing your care? Share your story Stories Overview Access to health care is critical to reducing suffering and death from cancer and other chronic illnesses. Yet too many patients face barriers accessing the ...

... as we know it by converting it to a “premium support” model -– essentially a modified and yet-to-be defined voucher program limiting the care Medicare would cover. This could very adversely affect many cancer patients given that half of all new cancer diagnoses involve people over ... for cancer patients. An estimated 9 percent of adults and 25 percent of children with cancer are covered by Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Medicaid also provides treatment to low-income women diagnosed with cancer through the successful National Breast ... cancer screenings to millions of people who would not otherwise get them.   The resolution also proposes deep cuts in domestic spending for health care, some of which is likely to hit cancer research at the National Institutes of Health and cancer prevention and early detection programs ...