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8-12-10 Affordable Care Act Update

... Senior Staff, ACS Advocacy Leaders, ACS Advocacy Personnel, Media Advocacy and ACS CAN Staff . Below is this week’s update on the Affordable Care Act. As always, thank you for all you do every day for cancer patients and their families. Medicaid Protections – Federal Medical Assistance ... returned to Washington, DC during their August recess to vote on the six-month extension of FMAP funding. The federal funding will protect state health programs and benefits for low-income cancer patients and families across the country.  The House passed H.R. 1586 247-to-161, and the ... ACS CAN senior director of Policy, will testify along with other consumer representatives at a hearing on the establishment of state based health exchanges. The NAIC is likely to develop model legislation for states, so the goal of the consumer representatives is to identify the key ...

1-20-11 Affordable Care Act Update

... Presidents, ACS Advocacy Leaders, ACS Advocacy Personnel, Media Advocacy and ACS CAN Staff.   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.   Health Care Reform Repeal Bill and Replace Resolution Pass the House   The U.S. House of Representatives voted Wednesday night on legislation ( HR ... phase of its effort to dismantle the law. The House debated and voted on H Res. 9 , which calls on three House committees of jurisdiction for health care and the House Judiciary Committee to write and report out legislation that proposes changes to the law. The legislation passed 253-175, ...

1-20-11 Affordable Care Act Update

... Presidents, ACS Advocacy Leaders, ACS Advocacy Personnel, Media Advocacy and ACS CAN Staff.   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.   Health Care Reform Repeal Bill and Replace Resolution Pass the House   The U.S. House of Representatives voted Wednesday night on legislation ( HR ... phase of its effort to dismantle the law. The House debated and voted on H Res. 9 , which calls on three House committees of jurisdiction for health care and the House Judiciary Committee to write and report out legislation that proposes changes to the law. The legislation passed 253-175, ...

1-20-11 Affordable Care Act Update

... Presidents, ACS Advocacy Leaders, ACS Advocacy Personnel, Media Advocacy and ACS CAN Staff.   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.   Health Care Reform Repeal Bill and Replace Resolution Pass the House   The U.S. House of Representatives voted Wednesday night on legislation ( HR ... phase of its effort to dismantle the law. The House debated and voted on H Res. 9 , which calls on three House committees of jurisdiction for health care and the House Judiciary Committee to write and report out legislation that proposes changes to the law. The legislation passed 253-175, ...

1-13-11 Affordable Care Act Update

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   Affordable ... 10 categories of benefits that must be covered, must be covered, and otherwise leaves the details for developing others to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop the rest through regulations. This week the Institute of Medicine (IOM), which was charged with ... meeting which will include two days of public hearings. The IOM is expected to complete its work by September. Read coverage from CQ and Kaiser Health News .     What goes into the essential benefits package is hugely important to cancer patients, going to the heart of adequacy of ...

1-13-11 Affordable Care Act Update

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   Affordable ... 10 categories of benefits that must be covered, must be covered, and otherwise leaves the details for developing others to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop the rest through regulations. This week the Institute of Medicine (IOM), which was charged with ... meeting which will include two days of public hearings. The IOM is expected to complete its work by September. Read coverage from CQ and Kaiser Health News .     What goes into the essential benefits package is hugely important to cancer patients, going to the heart of adequacy of ...

1-13-11 Affordable Care Act Update

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   Affordable ... 10 categories of benefits that must be covered, must be covered, and otherwise leaves the details for developing others to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop the rest through regulations. This week the Institute of Medicine (IOM), which was charged with ... meeting which will include two days of public hearings. The IOM is expected to complete its work by September. Read coverage from CQ and Kaiser Health News .     What goes into the essential benefits package is hugely important to cancer patients, going to the heart of adequacy of ...

Senate Should Stop Tax Subsidies for Inadequate Health Plans

WASHINGTON, D.C—Today the U.S. Senate will vote on a resolution under the Congressional Review Act that would stop Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Department of the Treasury guidance allowing individuals to use federal tax subsidies to purchase health insurance that does not meet coverage standards under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). A statement from Lisa Lacasse, president of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) follows: “Today the ...

Missouri Supreme Court Ruling Upholds Critical Access to Health Insurance

... healthcare coverage voters approved last August. This ruling is a victory in the fight against cancer in Missouri. We know individuals without health insurance are more likely to be diagnosed with cancer at later, more costly stages and are less likely to survive. By increasing access to Medicaid, Missouri can help ensure more individuals who currently lack affordable, comprehensive health insurance can gain coverage through Medicaid and access the care they need. For cancer patients, this can mean the difference between life and death.  “The voter approved Medicaid expansion was supposed ...

ACS CAN Files Comments on Health Premium Subsidies

The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network today filed comments with the Internal Revenue Service on the proposed rule on health premium subsidies under the Affordable Care Act. The comments address the ACA provision that makes certain people with health coverage through their employer eligible to switch to a plan in a health exchange, where they would receive subsidies to help pay their ...

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