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  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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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 ...