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Bipartisan Health Care Deal Could Preserve Health Insurance for Millions of Cancer Patients and Survivors

... (ACS CAN) follows: “We commend Senators Alexander and Murray for their continued dedication to finding bipartisan solutions to our nation’s health care challenges. This deal offers important, immediate action to stabilize the individual insurance market. The funding of cost-sharing reduction ... $106 million per year in outreach and education programming would help to reduce public confusion over the law and ensure more people who need health coverage get it. “Expedited state waivers and new types of plans can affect cancer patients’ care—from prescription drug coverage to ...

National Patient Groups Oppose Allowing Employers to Charge Less Health Workers More For Health Care

WASHINGTON -- January 7, 2010 -- Three of the nation’s leading patient groups are calling on congressional leaders to ensure that final health care reform legislation promotes evidence-based workplace wellness programs and encourages financial incentives for healthy behaviors that are not ... Diabetes Association and the American Heart Association worked with House leaders to develop workplace wellness provisions in the House-passed health reform bill that encourage healthy behaviors but do not penalize less healthy workers with higher premiums and out-of-pocket costs. In a ...

Cancer Patients and Survivors Need Immediate Health Care Replacement Plan if Affordable Care Act Repealed

... D.C., January 13, 2017 —Today Congress passed a budget resolution that will enable the repeal of significant parts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), including premium subsidy support and funding for Medicaid expansion. A statement from Chris Hansen, president of ACS CAN, follows: ... preventive care and treatment.  “Delaying such a replacement could create unacceptable instability in the insurance market jeopardizing the health care of more than 20 million Americans—many of whom are cancer patients and cancer survivors with a pre-existing condition —who have ... to die as a result. “It is essential that any replacement plan includes comprehensive coverage. Simply providing people universal access to health insurance is not sufficient if the coverage doesn’t cover cancer prevention, treatment and follow-up at an affordable price.  “Going ...

ACS CAN President Attends WH Summit on Health Care Reform

I had the distinct privilege today of attending the White House Summit on Health Care Reform. President Obama made it clear at the Summit that the White House is intent on fixing the broken health care system, calling it a "moral imperative." He also made it clear that he is committed to reform happening this year, and he reiterated ...

Budget Resolutions Present Opportunities for Health Care Reform This Year

... -- April 3, 2009 -- “The House and Senate passed Budget Resolutions last night that enable the critical effort to move forward to reform our health care system.  The result is good news for cancer patients, survivors and their loved ones who know too well the gaps that exist in the broken health care system. “We need our elected officials to act on comprehensive reform this year.  Delaying action or simply falling back on the ...

Bill Would Weaken Patient Protections in New Health Care Law

... 20, 2012 The House Energy and Commerce Committee is expected to vote today on legislation (H.R. 1206) that would remove the commissions of health insurance agents from the medical loss ratio (MLR), a calculation that insurers must use to show the proportion of premiums they spend on providing health care to patients as opposed to salaries and other administrative expenses. Following is a statement from Christopher W. Hansen, president of ...

Daschle Nomination Furthers Momentum to Fix Broken Health Care System

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- November 19, 2008 -- Senator Tom Daschle has worked throughout his career to improve access to quality health care for all Americans, and has been a consistent supporter of increased federal funding for cancer research and other policies that advance the fight against cancer.  We look forward to working with Senator Daschle to transform the broken health care system from one focused primarily on acute care to one that makes disease prevention and early detection a higher priority.  ...

Real People and Real Stories from the Health Care Crisis

Access Denied: Real People and Real Stories from the Health Care Crisis     Ellena Bennett Albany, NY Ellena Bennett is a 27-year-old doctoral student and three-time cancer survivor who lost both parents to cancer at a young age. She receives her health insurance under COBRA, which covers 60 percent of her medical care but leaves her responsible for the remaining 40 percent, which she must ...

Patient groups warn: Administration policy encourages discrimination in health care

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today 29 patient and consumer groups representing millions of people nationwide with pre-existing health conditions issued the following statement in response to administration’s final rule. The rule, finalized Friday, attempts to undermine Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act by removing explicit protections against discrimination of patients by providers and institutions: “By finalizing these changes, the ... from discrimination and able to access healthcare. The elimination of these important protections will result in severe consequences for the health and well-being of Americans seeking health care, especially those with serious, acute, chronic or other pre-existing conditions and those in ...

7 Million People Sign-Up for Insurance on Health Care Exchanges

According to figures released from the White House, more than 7 million people signed up for health insurance though the new health care marketplace. These "health care exchanges" were created as a result of the Affordable Care Act. ACS CAN supported key provisions in the ...

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