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9-9-10 Affordable Care Act Update

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. Senator ... increases reporting requirements on small businesses. To offset the revenue loss the amendment would nearly eliminate the Prevention and Public Health Fund ($17 billion over 10 years) that was included in the Affordable Care Act to support important prevention programs like tobacco cessation, obesity and nutrition programs and public health infrastructure. The amendment would also make significant changes to the individual mandate requirements included in the new law that would ...

9-9-10 Affordable Care Act Update

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. Senator ... increases reporting requirements on small businesses. To offset the revenue loss the amendment would nearly eliminate the Prevention and Public Health Fund ($17 billion over 10 years) that was included in the Affordable Care Act to support important prevention programs like tobacco cessation, obesity and nutrition programs and public health infrastructure. The amendment would also make significant changes to the individual mandate requirements included in the new law that would ...

9-9-10 Affordable Care Act Update

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. Senator ... increases reporting requirements on small businesses. To offset the revenue loss the amendment would nearly eliminate the Prevention and Public Health Fund ($17 billion over 10 years) that was included in the Affordable Care Act to support important prevention programs like tobacco cessation, obesity and nutrition programs and public health infrastructure. The amendment would also make significant changes to the individual mandate requirements included in the new law that would ...

9-9-10 Affordable Care Act Update

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. Senator ... increases reporting requirements on small businesses. To offset the revenue loss the amendment would nearly eliminate the Prevention and Public Health Fund ($17 billion over 10 years) that was included in the Affordable Care Act to support important prevention programs like tobacco cessation, obesity and nutrition programs and public health infrastructure. The amendment would also make significant changes to the individual mandate requirements included in the new law that would ...

1-6-12 Affordable Care Act Update

... are expected to dominate the Congressional agenda while states continue to struggle with meeting their own budget targets. The Affordable Care Act will remain top of mind, with the Supreme Court taking up the issue in March even as implementation continues with regulatory and legislative activity at the federal and state levels. The tobacco industry will continue to push back against efforts to protect public health, seeking to undermine existing protections or defeat attempts to enact new ones. All this comes against the backdrop of the 2012 election. ... for funding for cancer-related programs and services; ensuring cancer patients and their families have improved access to quality, affordable health care; and protecting the public from the deadly effects of tobacco use. ACS CAN is fighting for the right causes for the right reasons – ...

Left Behind: Health and Hope in North Carolina

In Left Behind: Hope and Health in North Carolina, we meet three individuals who share their hopes for the future and worries about their health. Richard, Emma and Adrienne all earn too much money to qualify for Medicaid, yet not enough to benefit from subsidies to purchase insurance, making access to health care difficult. Watch the trailer Watch the full film Meet the storytellers: Richard Richard and his wife Vickie own and work on their family farm ...

12/7/12 Affordable Care Act Update

... US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) published a draft rule that proposes standards for the Multi-State Plan Program (MSPP). The Affordable Care Act (ACA) directs OPM to enter into contracts with private health insurance issuers so that at least two multi-state plans are offered in the new health insurance exchanges beginning in 2014. At least one of the insurers must be a non-profit entity. Insurers   who wish to participate in the ...

12/7/12 Affordable Care Act Update

... US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) published a draft rule that proposes standards for the Multi-State Plan Program (MSPP). The Affordable Care Act (ACA) directs OPM to enter into contracts with private health insurance issuers so that at least two multi-state plans are offered in the new health insurance exchanges beginning in 2014. At least one of the insurers must be a non-profit entity. Insurers   who wish to participate in the ...

12/7/12 Affordable Care Act Update

... US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) published a draft rule that proposes standards for the Multi-State Plan Program (MSPP). The Affordable Care Act (ACA) directs OPM to enter into contracts with private health insurance issuers so that at least two multi-state plans are offered in the new health insurance exchanges beginning in 2014. At least one of the insurers must be a non-profit entity. Insurers   who wish to participate in the ...

12-1-11 Affordable Care Act Update

... the automatic cuts. Reductions to Medicare would be limited to 2 percent and impact providers only, with no cuts for beneficiaries. Read Kaiser Health News' " Health Leaders Prepare for Round Two of Cuts ."   The across-the-board cuts are in addition to an earlier round of cuts to domestic discretionary ... the following years is more difficult to predict. Read Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson's " A Grim Diagnosis for Our Ailing US Health Care System ."   The super committee's inability to reach an agreement, however, does not rule out the possibility that Congress will find another ...

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