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5-3-12 Affordable Care Act Update

May 4, 2012
Massachusetts

State Lead Ambassador Summit Last weekend ACS CAN hosted its sixth annual State Lead Ambassador Summit in St. Louis for 48 volunteer leaders and their staff partners. The Summit included a town hall meeting where volunteers and staff asked questions and discussed ongoing strategies for implementing the Affordable Care

5-3-12 Affordable Care Act Update

May 4, 2012
Vermont

State Lead Ambassador Summit Last weekend ACS CAN hosted its sixth annual State Lead Ambassador Summit in St. Louis for 48 volunteer leaders and their staff partners. The Summit included a town hall meeting where volunteers and staff asked questions and discussed ongoing strategies for implementing the Affordable Care

California Designates Benchmark Plan

April 30, 2012
National

Last Friday, California joined Washington in being the only two states that have designated a benchmark plan for the private health insurance market that will serve as the essential health benefits (EHB) for all individual and small group plans offered inside their health exchange and in the outside market. Congratulations

4-26-12 Affordable Care Act Update

April 27, 2012
Maine

Federal Update This week the House will vote on a measure that diverts funding from the Prevention and Public Health Fund to keep down the costs of student loan interest rates. ACS CAN sent a letter to all House members opposing any legislation that would cut prevention

4-26-12 Affordable Care Act Update

April 27, 2012
Massachusetts

Federal Update This week the House will vote on a measure that diverts funding from the Prevention and Public Health Fund to keep down the costs of student loan interest rates. ACS CAN sent a letter to all House members opposing any legislation that would cut prevention

4-26-12 Affordable Care Act Update

April 27, 2012
Vermont

Federal Update This week the House will vote on a measure that diverts funding from the Prevention and Public Health Fund to keep down the costs of student loan interest rates. ACS CAN sent a letter to all House members opposing any legislation that would cut prevention

House Proposal to Pay for Student Loan Legislation with Prevention Fund Undermines Historic Investment in Health

April 26, 2012

WASHINGTON April 26, 2012 The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), the advocacy affiliate of the American Cancer Society, sent a letter to the lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives today, urging them to oppose any legislation that would cut prevention and public health funding for any

Reauthorization of FDA User Fee Legislation Critical to Ensuring Access to Cancer Treatments and Therapies

April 25, 2012

WASHINGTON April 25, 2012 Families affected by cancer are encouraged by efforts in the U.S. Congress to advance legislation this week that would reauthorize and expand the industry-supported user fee program that pays for the expeditious review of new pharmaceutical drugs and medical devices by the Food and Drug Administration

4-19-12 Affordable Care Act Update

April 20, 2012
Maine

In the States As we previously noted in this space, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has tasked each state with defining an essential health benefits (EHB) package that will cover 10 broad categories defined in a December 16, 2011 HHS bulletin. In combination with