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Idaho Lawmakers Must Protect Health Care Access

BOISE, IDAHO – As legislative business convenes in the state Capitol, Idaho lawmakers must prioritize access to health care so that tens of thousands of state residents can continue to lead healthy and happy lives and have the best chance to avoid, detect and defeat ... uninsured rate, assuring more than 88,000 Idahoans who previously could not afford a marketplace plan have access to insurance and life-saving health care. This coverage is especially crucial to rural Idahoans and the health care systems serving them. Further, recent surveys show 73% of ...

State Legislative Candidates Go on the Record About Health Care at Health Votes Montana Candidate Forums

Missoula, Mont.—Sept. 10, 2018—The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), AARP Montana and Montana Primary Care Association will educate the public and encourage state legislative candidates to publicly state their positions on cancer and other key health care issues throughout the campaign season. Many stakeholders are involved in the health care debate, and often the concerns of patients, consumers and their family caregivers can be underrepresented. Health Votes Montana is a ...

Veto Override of Tobacco 21 Will Save Lives; Health Care Costs

... affiliate of the American Cancer Society, supports evidence-based policy and legislative solutions designed to eliminate cancer as a major health problem. ACS CAN works to encourage elected officials and candidates to make cancer a top national priority. ACS CAN gives ordinary people ... tools they need to make their voices heard. For more information, visit www.fightcancer.org .   Veto Override of Tobacco 21 Will Save Lives; Health Care Costs ...

Federal Cigarette Tax Increase Would Save $63 Billion in Health Care Costs

... 26, 2013 The president 's proposal to raise the federal cigarette tax by 94 cents would save the country more than $63 billion in long-term health care costs, according to new estimates by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Networkξ (ACS CAN). ACS CAN also estimates that health care cost savings from fewer smoking-related lung cancer cases would total more than $821 million over 10 years. This proposal comes at a ...

CDC Study Finds Smoking Leads to Higher-Than-Expected Health Care Costs

... Journal of Preventive Medicine published two studies today from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Office on Smoking and Health showing health care costs attributable to cigarette smoking are higher than previously reported (nearly $170 billion per year), as well as results on the ...

Tobacco Excise Tax Increases: Save Lives. Reduce Health Care Costs. Generate Revenue.

... most effective ways to prevent kids from starting to use tobacco and help adults quit. [i]     [i] U.S. National Cancer Institute and World Health Organization. The Economics of Tobacco and Tobacco Control. National Cancer Institute Tobacco Control Monograph 21. NIH Publication No. 16-CA-8029A. Bethesda, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute; and Geneva, CH: World Health Organization; 2016. Tobacco Excise Tax Increases: Save Lives. Reduce Health Care Costs. Generate Revenue. ...

Senate Votes to Raise Tobacco Taxes, Increase Health Care Coverage for Children

... save lives by substantially increasing the federal cigarette tax an action that will reduce smoking rates and expanding the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). "The interests of the public in particular children have clearly trumped the interests of the tobacco and ... a strong bill that will help to prevent children from taking up the deadly habit of smoking, ensure that more low-income children have access to health insurance and expand the availability of lifesaving cancer screenings. Given these enormous benefits, we ask President Bush to reconsider ... extraordinary power to fight cancer. For more information, visit www.fightcancer.org . Senate Votes to Raise Tobacco Taxes, Increase Health Care Coverage for Children ...

House Votes to Raise Tobacco Taxes, Increase Health Care Coverage for Children

... community on several fronts. By imposing a substantial new increase in the federal cigarette tax to pay for expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), and eliminating Medicare co-payments for lifesaving mammograms and colonoscopies, this legislation will encourage ... cigarette consumption by four percent. The increase also would fund an expansion of SCHIP, which provides low-income children with access to health insurance. "Because a more substantial jump in the cigarette tax would have an even greater impact in curbing tobacco use and consumption, ... extraordinary power to fight cancer. For more information, visit www.fightcancer.org . House Votes to Raise Tobacco Taxes, Increase Health Care Coverage for Children ...

ABC News 12: Cancer survivors and health care advocates rally for oral chemo coverage

LANSING, Mich. (WJRT) - (04/25/18) - A group of health care advocates are trying to align Michigan's policies with more than 43 other states. They took a direct approach, reaching out face to face to members of the Michigan House of Representatives.Those other states provide equal health insurance coverage of chemotherapy, whether it's taken by needle or by mouth. "I am a bone cancer survivor and melanoma survivor. I was ...

HELP Committee Legislation Marks Critical Step in Support of Comprehensive Health Care Reform This Year

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- June 9, 2009 -- Draft health care legislation unveiled by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee represents a critical step toward enacting comprehensive health care reform this year.  The ...

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