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... (date TBA).   New Messaging Documents As we mentioned during the Atlanta training, ACS CAN staff have developed new messaging around Affordable Care Act implementation that is ready for you to use. The messaging centers on the following theme: Making the Affordable Care Act work for people with cancer will save lives.  If this sounds familiar, it is because the Society and ACS CAN continue to view the health care system through the “cancer lens,” as we have since the launch of the Access to Care Initiative in 2007. After being besieged with misinformation during the health care debate, the public lacks an understanding of the law’s provisions. This is true even among families affected by cancer, as ACS ...

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.   Kaiser Poll ... the continued importance of educating staff, volunteers, and the public at large about how the Affordable Care Act will meaningfully improve the health care system for people with cancer and their families. Read more about the poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation and The Washington Post .   HHS Releases Interim Final Appeals Regulation and Announces Funding for New Consumer Assistance Grants Program   The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released an interim final rule on provisions in the Affordable Care Act that provides consumers new rights to ...

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.   Kaiser Poll ... the continued importance of educating staff, volunteers, and the public at large about how the Affordable Care Act will meaningfully improve the health care system for people with cancer and their families. Read more about the poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation and The Washington Post .   HHS Releases Interim Final Appeals Regulation and Announces Funding for New Consumer Assistance Grants Program   The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released an interim final rule on provisions in the Affordable Care Act that provides consumers new rights to ...

... Accountability Office (GAO) made public a report Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE) requested regarding potential alternatives to the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) individual mandate provision, which requires most Americans to purchase health insurance beginning in 2014.  The report studied mechanisms other than the individual mandate, but the results were inconclusive, with ... individual responsibility provision. Read ACS CAN's press release . Defunding Programs in Affordable Care Act The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee passed legislation today to eliminate mandatory funding for several programs created in the ACA, including funding for the ...