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Health Care Enters a New Era
Congress yesterday took its final historic votes to repair the broken health care system, approving a package of improvements that strengthen the broad reform bill that President Obama signed into law this week. I had the ... the bill signing. I kept thinking about people with cancer and their families across the country who will gain access to quality, affordable health care – in many cases for the first time – because of reform. The enactment of meaningful health care reform represents a major step ...
U.S. House Passes Health Care Reform Legislation!
In two historic votes, the U.S. House of Representatives tonight passed health care reform legislation that includes several provisions that meaningfully improve the health care system for cancer patients, survivors, and their families. Although the bill is not perfect, it meets the reform priorities of the ...
ACS Advocates Lobby for Health Care Reform
Hundreds of Cancer Advocates Urge Lawmakers to Pass Health Care Now, Not Later More than 400 cancer patients, survivors, caregivers and their families from all 50 states and nearly every Congressional district united on Tuesday to lobby their members of Congress in support of comprehensive health care reform. ACS CAN hosted its annual leadership summit and lobby day this week in Washington, D.C. to urge lawmakers to focus on patients, ...
U.S. Senate Passes Health Care Reform Legislation
In a historic vote, the U.S. Senate this morning passed comprehensive health reform legislation that would dramatically improve access to affordable, quality care and significantly improve the health care system for cancer patients and their families. As the leading voice of patients in the debate, the American Cancer Society Cancer ...
2-5-10-This Week in Health Care Reform
... to the federal budget, the economy, and jobs; we expect those to remain the primary focus during the coming weeks. This does not mean that health care reform efforts have been abandoned. Health care may no longer be the lead story every single day, but negotiations are continuing furiously behind the scenes. Congressional ...
Vermont: 10-9-09 This Week in Health Care Reform
On Capitol Hill On Thursday morning, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) announced its "score" of the Senate Finance Committee’s health reform bill, indicating that the revised measure would cost $829 billion, provide coverage to 29 million more U.S. residents and reduce the ... benefits. These are enormous steps forward and the only way to benefit from this progress is to keep the process moving forward in order to pass health care reform legislation this year. ACS CAN Priority: A Focus on Affordability A topic I want to focus on this week is affordability. As you ...
1-08-10 This Week in Health Care Reform
... on C-SPAN despite the early hour), cancer patients, survivors and their loved ones came one step closer to a remedy for our nation’s ‘sick care’ system after the Senate passed comprehensive health reform legislation on Christmas Eve. The legislation included a number of strong provisions that would significantly improve the health care system for cancer patients by refocusing the system to emphasize prevention; guaranteeing quality, affordable coverage regardless of ...
9-11-09 This Week in Health Care Reform
On Capitol Hill The Labor Day holiday marked the official end of summer recess and health care reform activity on Capitol Hill resumed at high speed. On Wednesday night, President Obama delivered his address on health care reform to a joint session of Congress. For months, ACS CAN has been working to help focus the debate through the cancer lens, and I’m ...
1-21-10 Health Care Update from John Seffrin
Following the historic passage of health care reform legislation in the U.S. Senate in December and the U.S. House of Representatives in November, congressional leaders have been meeting ... congressional leaders to continue moving forward on comprehensive reform and not to step back on the promise of significant improvements to the health care system. In fact, a majority of members of both the House and Senate have already supported comprehensive reform with their votes. We ...
U.S. Senate Begins Debate on Health Care Reform Legislation
Congress returned this week from its Thanksgiving break to begin a new and important phase in its historic attempt to pass health care reform legislation. With the Senate having begun pivotal floor debate Monday, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network SM (ACS CAN) ... including mammograms and colonoscopies, and limiting the ability of insurance companies to charge more for coverage based on an applicant’s health status or age . As the leading voice of patients in the debate, ACS CAN is working to protect the bill’s strongest provisions and ...