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March 7, 2017
Wyoming

At age 20, I was diagnosed with metastatic soft tissue sarcoma, leaving me with 20-plus tumors in my lungs requiring frequent CT scans to monitor growth. Against all odds, I’ve survived and health coverage is my lifeline. Without health insurance, I don’t know how I would pay for the medical care needed to monitor my cancer and manage ongoing health complications.

March 6, 2017

A coalition of eleven nonpartisan patient groups today laid out a joint set of goals they want Congress to focus on as it considers changes to the Affordable Care Act.

March 6, 2017
Connecticut

Letter to the Editor by State Lead Ambassador Roger Levesque in the March 6th edition of the Hartford Courant. Read Full Article

March 3, 2017
New Mexico

As the New Mexico legislature continues to debate on how to tackle a large budget deficit, the coalition to increase the tax on tobacco products continues to grow.

March 3, 2017
Arizona

Indoor tanning for kids? Might as well expose them to plutonium March 2, 2017 , 2:27 pm After four years of hard work on the part of patients, parents, physicians, and legislators,

March 2, 2017
Wisconsin

ACS CAN Wisconsin advocates, Nikki Payne, David Reilly, and Kari Reilly, recently met with Speaker Paul Ryan David was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma 20 years ago on his 29 th birthday. After months of chemotherapy and radiation, he was cancer free. But the treatments that saved his life also severely

March 2, 2017
Wyoming

For the better part of a year-and-a-half, ACS CAN volunteers and staff in Wyoming worked on passing model palliative care legislation that would create a statewide task force to assess how healthcare facilities can make palliative care more available to patients with serious illnesses—improving quality of life while saving healthcare

March 1, 2017

WASHINGTON, D.C – March 1, 2017 – Bipartisan legislation recently introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate would help eliminate cost as a barrier for seniors on Medicare trying to access lifesaving colorectal cancer screenings. The “Removing Barriers to Colorectal Cancer Screening Act” (H.R. 1017 and S. 479)

March 1, 2017

Earlier today, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown introduced legislation to finally close the colonoscopy loophole in Medicaid.