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Updates matching "Access to Health Care"

July 9, 2010
Vermont

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.

July 2, 2010
Vermont

Below is this week’s update on the Affordable Care Act. As always, thank you for all you do every day for cancer patients and their families. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Carter Steger, senior director, State and

July 1, 2010

Washington, D.C. – July 1, 2010 – The administration today launched a new high-risk pool program that will offer coverage in every state for uninsured people with pre-existing conditions. The new program was created by the Affordable Care Act to offer health coverage to people with cancer and other pre-existing

June 30, 2010

The National Prevention, Health Promotion and Public Health Council created by the Affordable Care Act issued its first status report today outlining the priorities for a National Prevention and Health Promotion Strategy that will help to repair the broken "sick care" system. Following is a statement from the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN).

June 23, 2010
National

Yesterday, my 12-year-old daughter, Taylor, and I had an amazing experience. We were able to meet and speak directly to President Obama. We were able to thank him for his relentless efforts to pass health care reform for families like ours who faced holes in the broken health care system.

June 23, 2010

Strong Implementation of and Education about Affordable Care Act Critical for Cancer Community; Increased Access Coupled with Research Key to Progress in Beating Disease WASHINGTON, D.C. – June 23, 2010 – A new poll illustrates the difficulty that cancer patients, survivors and their families face in affording needed health care

June 22, 2010
National

At a White House event in June, Amy Wilhite, an American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) volunteer from Marblehead, Ohio, introduced the President and shared her familyŠ—Ès story about how a ban on lifetime benefit limits in the Affordable Care Act will directly benefit her 12-year-old daughter, Taylor,

June 22, 2010

Washington, D.C. -- June 22, 2010 -- The administration today issued regulations enforcing several provisions of the Affordable Care Act that are critical to patients. As the leading voice of patients during the debate, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) strongly supported the inclusion of patient protections

June 21, 2010
National

On June 10, the President issued an executive order for the establishment of the National Prevention, Health Promotion and Public Health Council. The Council was created under the Affordable Care Act, and is intended to integrate the prevention efforts of many federal government agencies for more effective policies and reach.