Lifeline: Why cancer patients depend on Medicare for critical coverage
January 1, 2013
In this 2013 report ACS CAN explored the relationship between Medicare and cancer, including how cancer affects the elderly and the financial impact the disease has on the Medicare program and its beneficiaries.
The costs of cancer don’t end when active treatment ends. This report explores the costs survivors face, as well as the lasting financial impacts of high costs during active treatment. It includes cancer survivor profiles to illustrate these costs over the course of an insurance year.
Hispanic/Latino people facing cancer and survivors experience high costs, and are more likely than White counterparts to be uninsured and experience serious financial hardship.
