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What an amazing whirlwind of a day today! Our patient advocates and their caregivers successfully made it to Washington for ACS CAN's "Surviving the System" Lobby Day, each with his or her own personal story of how theyŠ—Ève fallen through the cracks of the current health insurance system. Today's Lobby

ACS CAN staff has been preparing for weeks to get ready for some very special visitors who are coming to our nation's capital to tell their stories on their struggles in dealing with our current health care system. Volunteers flew in from across the country and ACS CAN staffers greeted

One of the patients traveling to the "Surviving the System" lobby day is Roseanne Nabhan from Indiana. Doctors diagnosed Roseanne Nabhan with a 10-centimeter sarcoma in June 2007. Roseanne completed 28 radiation treatments to reduce the size of the sarcoma and later had a lumpectomy. She is now in remission.

Week Ending May 16th This week was one of the most important in the health care reform debate, with the president using his bully pulpit several times to promote the issue. On Monday, May 11, he met with executives from organizations representing health insurers, drug companies, hospitals, doctors, medical device

5-15-09 Maine Statehouse Update

On May 19 and 20, 29 cancer patients, survivors, and their loved ones from across the country will travel to Washington, DC, to participate in the ACS CAN "Surviving the System: Why Cancer Patients Need Health Care Reform NOW" Lobby Day. ACS CAN staff and the patients will take the

Each day the evidence mounts that real health care reform really can happen this year. It certainly feels different than the last time comprehensive reform was on the national agenda -- during the early 1990's. Today, diverse groups are all working together to find consensus on the thorny issues that

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Much of the current health care reform debate is a rehash of issues that have been argued for many years -- government vs. private insurance, insurance market rules, mandated benefits, etc -- all important but not "new". Last week, however, there was something new from a policy perspective. Karen Pollitz,