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ACS CAN Files Comments on Health Insurance Exchanges and Qualified Health Plans

October 20, 2011

WASHINGTON, D.C. – October 20, 2011 – The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) today filed comments with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on the proposed rule on the development of marketplaces for insurance plans sold to individuals and small businesses under the Affordable Care Act.

The comments encourage the administration to clarify and strengthen the rule to benefit patients and consumers, such as by defining parameters for a federally-run health exchange as well as scenarios that would constitute a federal-state exchange partnership that would guarantee consumers seamless access to meaningful health care; requiring state-run health exchanges to offer coverage that is comparable in adequacy and affordability to plans offered in federally-run exchanges; prohibiting members with conflicts of interest from sitting on exchange governing boards; and providing consumers with the most comprehensible information to make enrollment as user-friendly as possible.

ACS CAN, the nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy affiliate of the American Cancer Society, supports evidence-based policy and legislative solutions designed to eliminate cancer as a major health problem. ACS CAN works to encourage elected officials and candidates to make cancer a top national priority. ACS CAN gives ordinary people extraordinary power to fight cancer with the training and tools they need to make their voices heard. For more information, visit www.fightcancer.org.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Steven Weiss or Alissa Havens
American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network
Phone: (202) 661-5711 or (202) 661-5772
Email: [email protected] or [email protected]

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