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Sign the petition to help protect affordable health care
Countless cancer patients and survivors have benefits from patient protections in the health care law. Sign now to urge Congress to keep and strengthen comprehensive, affordable health coverage 0 Sign the petition to help protect affordable health care ...
How has access to affordable, comprehensive health care impacted you?
One of ACS CAN’s top priorities in 2025 and beyond will be to protect critical patient protections in the health care law and maintain access to affordable, quality health coverage. Your story can help. 0 How has access to affordable, comprehensive health care impacted you? ...
Join Changemakers on June 18th to learn about AI and Cancer Care
... learn about how AI can impact cancer prevention, detection, and treatment. We will be hearing from the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Penn State Health, and the Pennsylvania State Legislature. The virtual event is on Tuesday, June 18th from 12:00-12:30pm. This free event series brings together local experts, decision makers, and advocates to explore issues related to health equity, public policy, and cancer. These 30-minute sessions will educate and enlighten a statewide audience about the pressing challenges ... as well as highlight individuals breaking down barriers and bringing about change. 0 Join Changemakers on June 18th to learn about AI and Cancer Care ...
Pledge to vote NO on Amendment F
... In 2022, South Dakota voters overwhelmingly approved to expand Medicaid to ensure their family members, friends, and neighbors could get the health care they need. Since then, nearly 25,000 hard-working South Dakotans have accessed affordable health care coverage. Unfortunately, the South Dakota legislature has chosen to undermine the will of the voters and has placed a poorly written ...
Congress: Pass PCHETA And Help Improve The Quality Of Life For Cancer Patients
PCHETA would increase federal research funding for palliative care, including pain and symptom management, and would establish palliative care education and training programs for doctors, nurses, and other health professionals. This important legislation would also increase education among patients and providers about the availability and benefits of ...
Increase funding for lifesaving cancer screening programs
... benefited equally from advances in prevention, early detection, and treatments. LGBTQ+ people are more likely to be uninsured, lack access to health care, and delay health care including critical screenings. The NBCCEDP (National Breast & Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program) provides timely access to ...
Mississippi Medicaid Covers US project
Medicaid is a vital health insurance plan that helps Mississippians stay healthy, go to work and care for their families. Go to https://www.fightcancer.org/medicaid-covers-us-mississippi to read and watch the stories from Mississippians across the state who are able to use Medicaid to access the health coverage they need, as well as from Mississippians who are unable to get the care they need because they don’t currently qualify for ...
Protect Ohioans from Big Tobacco
... its cigarette tax in more than nine years. Ohio's cigarette tax is currently $1.60 per pack, making us 29th among all states and DC. The annual health care expenditures in Ohio directly caused by smoking are $6.56 billion. Urge Ohio lawmakers to increase funding to $20 million for fact-based ... to pass a life-saving $1.50 per pack cigarette tax with a parallel tax on all other tobacco products through the legislature in 2025 to reduce health care costs, protect kids, and save lives. 0 Protect Ohioans from Big Tobacco ...
It's time to protect everyone’s right to breathe clean smoke-free air!
... Smoke-free laws reduce exposure to and protect people from secondhand smoke Strong laws increase quitting among current smokers and reduce health care costs 0 This year, secondhand smoke will cause nearly 42,000 deaths among nonsmokers, including 7,300 lung cancer deaths. It's time to ...
Medicaid is in danger. Act now.
The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote this week - possibly later today - on a bill that would decimate health care for millions of people, including cancer patients. Urge your House Representative to vote NO on this bill today. 0 Medicaid is in danger. Act ...