Medicaid Funding Caps are a Barrier to Care for Cancer Patients & Survivors
ACS CAN opposes per capita caps, block grants, and other capped funding structures for the Medicaid program, as they endanger access to care.
The Critical Role of Preventive Services without Cost Sharing for Cancer Prevention and Survivorship
August 20, 2025
Access to preventive services saves lives. Over the past four decades, cancer prevention and screening services alone have averted approximately 4.75 million deaths from breast, cervical, colorectal, lung and prostate cancers.
Millions of people risk losing access to preventive services if cost sharing is required.
Thanks to current protections in law, a vast majority of Americans have access to preventive services without cost sharing. More than 150 million privately insured individuals (including 37 million children) and approximately 20 million adult Medicaid expansion enrollees benefit from USPSTF-recommended preventive services without cost sharing. Re-introducing out-of-pocket costs for preventive services would negatively impact access to cancer prevention and screening, especially for the millions of people with limited incomes, for whom these payments can represent a significant percentage of their income.