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Federal Update            CLASS Act   Last week the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that the CLASS Act, enacted as part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), would not be implemented. The CLASS Act (Community Living and Assisted Support Services) was intended to be a voluntary, long-term ... 10 years. That figure has now been reduced to approximately $73 billion in reductions with the cancellation of the CLASS Act.     Critics of health care reform argue that the termination of the CLASS program is the beginning of the ACA’s unraveling. That claim is strongly misleading. ...

Federal Update            CLASS Act   Last week the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that the CLASS Act, enacted as part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), would not be implemented. The CLASS Act (Community Living and Assisted Support Services) was intended to be a voluntary, long-term ... 10 years. That figure has now been reduced to approximately $73 billion in reductions with the cancellation of the CLASS Act.     Critics of health care reform argue that the termination of the CLASS program is the beginning of the ACA’s unraveling. That claim is strongly misleading. ...

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. FDA Takes First ... appointment will expire at the end of the next session of Congress. Read the July 6, 2010 New York Times Article: Obama to Bypass Senate to Name Health Official . CDC Releases Vital Signs The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a new report this week, Vital Signs , ... full report can be found at: http://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/ .   Liz Ward, the American Cancer Society’s vice president of surveillance and health policy research, is quoted in the Associated Press story on the report: Colon Cancer Screenings Up, Breast Rate Stalled .   Christopher W. ...

Supreme Court Update   The Supreme Court has not yet issued its ruling on the Affordable Care Act (ACA), though the decision could come out as soon as Monday, June 25. The Court is likely to announce that it will issue decisions on one ... commissioners and departments to assess their plans for defining and implementing an essential benefits package. On Wednesday, the Delaware Health Care Commission posted its completed survey on its website. Click here to view the completed survey.    The survey was created by Society ... the American Heart Association (AHA), and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (National MS Society).   Consumer Rebates   On Thursday, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that 12.8 million Americans will benefit from $1.1 billion in rebates from ...