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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   Update on ... reporting requirements for small business.   ACS CAN opposed the amendment because its financial offset was to strip the Prevention and Public Health Fund ($17 billion over 10 years) of nearly all its funding. As you know, the Affordable Care Act established the Fund to support important prevention programs like tobacco cessation, obesity and nutrition programs and public health infrastructure. The amendment would have also made significant changes to the individual mandate requirements included in the new law that ...

... on Federally Facilitated Exchanges (FFE).docx      Litigation Update   The Supreme Court decision on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is expected to be announced before the court recesses for the summer at the end of June.  At this time it is unclear what day the ... the call in information shortly after the decision is announced.   Media and Polling   Key officials in states furthest along in setting up health care exchanges have mixed responses regarding what they would do if the Supreme Court overturns all or part of the ACA, according to a recent Washington Post story. Maryland's Secretary of Health Joshua Sharfstein said that even if the individual mandate is the only piece to be overturned it could jeopardize the success of exchanges. ...

... on Federally Facilitated Exchanges (FFE).docx      Litigation Update   The Supreme Court decision on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is expected to be announced before the court recesses for the summer at the end of June.  At this time it is unclear what day the ... the call in information shortly after the decision is announced.   Media and Polling   Key officials in states furthest along in setting up health care exchanges have mixed responses regarding what they would do if the Supreme Court overturns all or part of the ACA, according to a recent Washington Post story. Maryland's Secretary of Health Joshua Sharfstein said that even if the individual mandate is the only piece to be overturned it could jeopardize the success of exchanges. ...

... passed a 2011 fiscal year (FY 2011) spending bill, H.R. 1, in February that stripped the budget of funds necessary to implement the Affordable Care Act and also made deep cuts to federal cancer research and prevention programs. The Senate and the president considered the bill a ... the March 18 deadline.      The Hill reports on other tactics the House is considering to strip funding from the Affordable Care Act.   Health Insurance Rate Increases   Under the Affordable Care Act, health plans must justify any unreasonable rate increases to the states and the federal government, and post them on their websites. The Department ...