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Medical Debt and Cancer

Medical debt impacts many people with cancer, their caregivers and their families. ACS CAN has long fought for public policies – like access to comprehensive and affordable health insurance coverage – that reduce the likelihood or severity of that debt. Unfortunately, many Americans remain uninsured or underinsured and even those with comprehensive coverage can still incur significant ... many indirect costs, like transportation and lodging as well as losing wages due to unpaid time off or job loss, that add to their already heavy cost burden.  In March & April of 2024, ACS CAN asked people with cancer and survivors about their experiences with medical debt through a ...

We're defending smokers?

Many people have been surprised to see that ACS CAN has voiced concerns about provisions in some health care legislation that would allow employers to charge smokers significantly more for health ... tobacco taxes. It's actually quite simple.ξ Our goal is to save lives from cancer. For tobacco taxes, the science shows that increasing the cost of a pack of cigarettes by ten percent results in drops in both youth and adult smoking.ξ The science also clearly shows the devastating impact ...

National Report: Missouri Ranks 50th in Protecting Kids from Tobacco

... country in funding programs that prevent kids from smoking and help smokers quit, according to a national report released today by a coalition of public health organizations. The report challenges states to do more by shining the spotlight on Florida, which has cut its high school smoking ... key findings for Missouri include: Missouri is spending $70,788 this year on tobacco prevention and cessation programs, which is 0.1 percent of the $72.9 million recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Missouri will collect $231.2 million in this year from ... costing the nation at least $289 billion in health care bills and lost productivity each year. The full report and Missouri-specific information can be found at: http://www.tobaccofreekids.org/microsites/statereport2015/missouri.html  National Report: Missouri Ranks 50th in Protecting Kids ...

Bringing Leaders Together in the Fight against Cancer

The United States spends $88 billion annually on cancer care, with patients paying nearly $4 billion in out-of-pocket costs. The 2019 ACS CAN health care forum examined best practices employers and other payers are using to contain costs while keeping coverage affordable for cancer ... to foster discussion and examine policies that are critical in the fight against cancer. We held our eighth annual National Forum on the Future of Health Care in April 2019 in Washington, D.C., where leaders from government, private and nonprofit organizations gathered to discuss ways to ...

Tennessee Should Make It Easier to Quit Tobacco

... legislative session set to begin Tuesday, here is a statement from Maddie Bushnell Michael, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) Tennessee government relations director: “As Tennessee lawmakers dive into the 2024 legislative session, ACS CAN urges them to prioritize legislation to ease the burden of cancer on Tennesseans. Tennessee has cancer incidence and death rates above the national average. Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of disease and death in the Volunteer State, with smoking linked to at least 12 types of cancer. Each year, more than 35 percent of cancer deaths ...

American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network Priorities for 2021 Legislative Session

LANSING, MI – As lawmakers dive into the new year, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) looks ahead to what public health initiatives our lawmakers can accomplish in the 2021 legislative session. Michigan has a long way to go ... legislation. This legislation would give chronically ill patients easier access to the cancer treatment they need. It would ensure the out-of-pocket cost to the patient for oral chemotherapy and intravenous chemotherapy are similar. Currently, the out-of-pocket costs for some oral chemotherapy ...

Cancer Advocates Applaud 2nd Circuit for Protecting Patients from Surprise Billing

WASHINGTON, D.C.— January 24, 2023  — Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a decision in the case of Haller v. Health and Human Services (HHS) upholding the U.S. District Court’s ruling preserving the provisions of the No Surprises Act ... court for reconsideration of the issue of payments between providers and insurers.   The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) filed an amicus curiae, or friend-of-the-court,  brief  in the case in August, urging the circuit court to uphold the law and keep the ...

15,300 New Yorkers’ Lives to Be Saved with Cigarette Tax Increase

... shepherding a tobacco-free generation in New York, leading public health organizations—the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) and the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (TFK)— released an analysis of the public health benefits & cost savings that New York can expect to see with a $1.00 per pack cigarette tax increase. In addition to saving New York State millions of dollars ...

House Passes Legislation to Increase Funding for Cancer Research

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- July 24, 2009 -- “The House of Representatives today took a big step forward in the fight against cancer with passage of the FY 2010 Labor, Health and Human Services ... research and early detection programs. We encourage the Senate to pass this lifesaving legislation in a timely manner. Only with proper funding can the NIH, the NCI and the CDC conduct their important work to conquer a disease that will kill an estimated 560,000 Americans and cost the economy more than $228 billion this year.” ACS CAN, the nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy affiliate of the American Cancer Society, ...

July 2009 Monthly Advocacy Update

... On Monday, June 22, we made history when President Barack Obama signed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. Van Wolf, Chair of the American Cancer Society Board of Directors and Society and ACS CAN Chief Executive Officer John R. Seffrin, PhD, were among the guests at the White House Rose Garden signing ceremony. The Food and Drug ... as a reason to deny or limit coverage ensure that people with a chronic or catastrophic disease, like cancer, are not financially ruined by the cost of care place reasonable limitations on premiums and other patient out-of pocket costs abolish annual and lifetime caps on dollars spent or ...

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