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Frankfort, KY – April 2, 2018 – The following statement can be attributed to four leading health advocacy organizations: American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, American Heart Association, American Lung Association and the ... increase the cigarette tax by just 50-cents per pack, an amount that will have little to no impact in reducing smoking and improving public health. Small increases such as this are easily offset by tobacco industry price discounting and coupons intended to perpetuate tobacco-related ... that will essentially nullify the 50-cent increase. “Increasing the cigarette tax by a $1-per-pack would have saved lives, reduced health care costs and raised even more revenue. It would’ve helped 29,400 adult smokers quit and would’ve kept 23,200 kids from becoming smokers. ...

WASHINGTON, D.C.— The majority of cancer patients in the United States say they struggle to afford the costs of their cancer care. According to the latest  Survivor Views  survey from the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), 61% of cancer patients ... and are more apt to cut pills in half to reduce costs (18%). Over 80% of patients say they’ve had to make financial sacrifices to cover their health care expenses, including 44% who’ve dipped into their savings, 36% who’ve gone into credit card debt to pay medical bills and nearly a ... Those provisions include, extending increased subsidies for purchasing private insurance on the marketplace, providing access to affordable health coverage for more than two million people in a dozen states which have yet to expand Medicaid, capping Medicare enrollees’ out-of-pocket ...

... whether millions of low- and middle-income people can continue to receive a major source of financial assistance that helps them afford health coverage. The Society, ACS CAN, and numerous other public health groups hope the Court will decide that the Affordable Care Act enables qualified people who buy a health plan in either the federal marketplace or a state marketplace to receive federal tax credits ...

Washington, D.C.—Today Congress finished its work passing legislation that will expand access to health care coverage to more Americans, including cancer patients and survivors, who may have lost their insurance due to the ongoing pandemic. The bill will increase the eligibility and generosity of subsidies to cover the costs of marketplace health plans, offer financial support to cover all of the premium costs for laid off workers who choose to keep their employer-sponsored health ...