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Patients in Missouri Urge Passage of New Bill to Ensure All Copays Count

... today thanked Representative Wright and Senators Bernskoetter, Fitzwater, and Eslinger for introducing legislation that would require more health insurance plans to count all prescription drug copayments made by or on behalf of Missourians. The important health policy reform would prevent an increasingly common practice used by insurance companies and pharmacy benefit managers called “copay ... affiliate, ACS CAN has successfully advocated for billions of dollars in cancer research funding, expanded access to quality affordable health care, and advanced proven tobacco control measures. We’re more determined than ever to stand together with our volunteers to end cancer as we ...

Millions of Children Would Benefit from President 's Plan to Expand Early Education with Tobacco Tax Increase, New Report Shows

... 1.7 million kids from becoming smokers, according to a report released today by nine organizations that focus on early learning and/or public health. In his fiscal year 2014 budget, President Obama proposed expanding federal funding for early education programs, paid for with a 94-cent ... would help ensure a future of smart, healthy kids nationwide and in every state, the report concludes. The report details the educational and health benefits of the President 's proposal nationwide and in each state. ξNationwide, this proposal would: Provide nearly 335,000 additional ... 's leading preventable cause of death.ξ Tobacco use kills more than 400,000 Americans every year and costs the nation $96 billion in health care expenses.ξ Every day, more than 3,500 U.S. youth try their first cigarette. Research has shown that tobacco tax increases are the most ...

Federal Judge 's Order Moves Tobacco Companies Closer to Finally Telling the Truth to the American People

... “deliberately deceived the American public.” The five corrective statements will address the companies’ deceptions regarding 1) the health effects of smoking; 2) the addictiveness of smoking and nicotine; 3) the false advertising of low-tar and light cigarettes as less harmful than regular cigarettes; 4) the designing of cigarettes to enhance the delivery of nicotine; and 5) the health effects of secondhand smoke. Today’s order, which is based on an agreement between the Justice Department, six public health intervenors ... staggering number of deaths per year, an immeasurable amount of human suffering and economic loss, and a profound burden on our national health care system.  Defendants have known many of these facts for at least 50 years or more.  Despite that knowledge, they have consistently, ...

Hundreds of Cancer Patients, Survivors to Urge Federal Lawmakers to Make Cancer a National Priority

... lawmakers to restore and sustain funding for cancer research and proven prevention and early detection programs, improve access to palliative care as an extra layer of support for those with chronic disease, and increase federal tobacco taxes. The federal government has a critical role to ... to ensure that the fight against cancer remains a top national priority by restoring funding for critical research at the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute and proven prevention and early detection programs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that ... the non-profit, non-partisan advocacy affiliate organization of the American Cancer Society, which is dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem. ACS CAN works to encourage lawmakers, candidates and government officials to support laws and policies that will make cancer a top ...

ACS CAN Alaska's 2019 Policy Forum & Community Engagement Event

... goal is to learn about local successes and identify what we can do next as Alaskans to reduce the effects of chronic disease on our economy and health care system. Why Healthy Eating and Active Living? After tobacco use, diet and physical activity are the leading risk factors for cancer in our ...

Legislature Presses on with $0 Funding for Youth Tobacco Prevention Despite Budget Surplus

... addictive products. Tobacco use remains the leading cause of preventable death and costs the state and taxpayers roughly $3.8 billion in annual health care costs. 0 Legislature Presses on with $0 Funding for Youth Tobacco Prevention Despite Budget Surplus ...

Lights of Hope at the Capitol

... - from increasing funding for lifesaving cancer research to ensuring all Americans in every community have access to quality, affordable cancer care. This year will be truly special as we celebrate ACS CAN's 20th Anniversary. The Lights of Hope display will be open to the public ... of Pediatrics in the Division of Hematology, Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplant at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. He is presently the Director of Clinical Innovation for the UW Forward BIO Institute. He is an American Cancer Society Research Scholar and ...

After Over 15 Years, Legislature Passes Oral Chemotherapy Legislation

... advocacy affiliate, ACS CAN has successfully advocated for billions of dollars in cancer research funding, expanded access to quality affordable health care, and advanced proven tobacco control measures. We’re more determined than ever to stand together with our volunteers to end cancer as we ...

Bill would make Mass. a leader against Big Tobacco

... workplace law, increase the legal age for tobacco product purchase from 18 to 21, and prohibit sales of tobacco in facilities that provide health care, such as pharmacies.   When combined with Massachusetts' appropriately strong tobacco taxes and 100 percent smoke-free workplace law, passage ...

ACS CAN and the American Cancer Society brief Congress on new cancer data

... decline. But, he made clear that more work and research needs to be done to ensure the progress made in the fight against cancer also addresses health disparities in low-income and minority communities. “The most important question today is how can we provide high quality care to populations that do not often receive it,” Dr. Brawley said. Rep. Brian Higgins (D-NY), who joined Dr. Brawley and Chris Hansen at the ...

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