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Federal Update   Physician networks and hospital systems can play an important role in driving down health care costs and improving quality of care.  The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation recently released ... a report titled "Plan Participation in Health Insurance Exchanges: Implications for Competition and Choice" that looks at how consolidation of hospital systems affects the ability of insurers to negotiate prices.  Increased competition among insurers can help decrease costs and improve ...

Cancer screenings save lives!  Like going to the dentist or changing the oil in your car, cancer screening should be a regular part of your life. Screening tests are used before a person has any symptoms to help find cancer early, when it may be easier to treat.  Print this ... public policy proposals, all of them are committed to removing barriers to cancer screening. Join the 2022 Let's #ScreenNY Campaign Today! ACS CAN NY has launched the  Let’s Screen NY Campaign . The goal of the campaign is to mobilize federal, state, and local policymakers around an ... offers a critically important service to men and women who lack health insurance – screening for breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer at no cost to the patient. Detected early, these cancers are more effectively treated. Failing to have these cancers detected early can lead to deadly ...

This statement can be attributed to Hilary Schneider, director of government relations in Maine for the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), in response to portions of Governor LePage’s biennial budget proposal related to the Department of Health and Human Services: “The toll tobacco takes on Mainers – ...

... rates and health care costs for more than two decades. The funding comes from yearly payments from the tobacco industry, not taxpayers, as part of a settlement to ensure the state has an evidence-based and well-funded tobacco prevention and cessation program. This legislation seeks to stop ... budget is a shortsighted, misguided solution that will reverse decades of progress in fighting tobacco use. Repealing this stable funding will cost our state more financially in the long-term, and result in thousands of preventable deaths. “For more than 20 years, Hawaii’s tobacco ... people deserve to live healthy tobacco-free lives, and we hope our lawmakers will reinstate the original law as it was intended." ### About ACS CAN at 20   The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) makes cancer a top priority for policymakers at every level of ...