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... Prevention and Public Health Fund Lobby Day   Today, more than 40 leading groups from the public health community, including ACS CAN, are on Capitol Hill participating in more than 70 meetings with members of Congress to remind them of the importance of the Prevention and Public Health Fund. The Prevention and Public Health Fund was established under the Affordable Care Act and set an unprecedented investment to promote a healthy nation. This year, the Prevention Fund allocated $1 billion to communities in ...

... U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued the first appellate decision in litigation challenging the constitutionality of Affordable Care Act (ACA). The court upheld the law, reasoning that Congress had acted within its constitutional authority when it required individuals to purchase health insurance (the so-called "individual mandate").   One of the leading conservatives on the circuit – George W. Bush appointee Jeffrey ... opinion showed an understanding of how the industry operates in practice, and that the individual mandate regulates "active participation in the health care market."   The opinion also discussed the uniqueness of health care, and the necessity of access to it. Judge Sutton’s concurring ...

... U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued the first appellate decision in litigation challenging the constitutionality of Affordable Care Act (ACA). The court upheld the law, reasoning that Congress had acted within its constitutional authority when it required individuals to purchase health insurance (the so-called "individual mandate").   One of the leading conservatives on the circuit – George W. Bush appointee Jeffrey ... opinion showed an understanding of how the industry operates in practice, and that the individual mandate regulates "active participation in the health care market."   The opinion also discussed the uniqueness of health care, and the necessity of access to it. Judge Sutton’s concurring ...

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   Delaware ... .   View the ad .   New Information Added to Healthcare.gov Website   Additional consumer information was recently added to the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) consumer-friendly website: www.Healthcare.gov .   On October 1 the website launched a new tool to help ... on benefits and monthly premium estimates, as well as cost-sharing information including annual deductibles and out-of-pocket limits for health plans, is now available. Also, information about the percent of people in the plan who pay more than the base premium estimate due to their ...