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Please click on the link below to read this helpful pamphlet. How_ACA_is_Helping_Cancer_People_with_Cancer_and_Their_Families_11-10.pdf

Below is this week’s update on the Affordable Care Act. As always, thank you for all you do every day to support laws and policies that help cancer patients and their families. Please note: Due to the ACS CAN Leadership Summit and Lobby Day taking place next week, there will be no Affordable Care Act Update next week (Thursday, September 30).

Below is this week’s update on the Affordable Care Act. As always, thank you for all you do every day to support laws and policies that help cancer patients and their families.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) hosted an all-day meeting Monday on health exchanges. The goal was to discuss some of the major issues that will need to be addressed in federal regulations of health exchanges.

ACS CAN submitted comments to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on the Interim Final Rule that was released by HHS in June.

On Tuesday, the House returned to Washington, DC during their August recess to vote on the six-month extension of FMAP funding. The federal funding will protect state health programs and benefits for low-income cancer patients and families across the country.

On Tuesday, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a “Request for Comments” regarding provisions in the Affordable Care Act that require the creation of state based health exchanges.

Congressional Hearing to Highlight Need for Increased Federal Funding for Medical Research Sustained Investment is Critical to Continued Progress in the Fight to Defeat Cancer WASHINGTON – April

Congress yesterday took its final historic votes to repair the broken health care system, approving a package of improvements that strengthen the broad reform bill that President Obama signed into law this week. I had the privilege of being in Washington, D.C. with Society