Empowering patient voices through voter registration
While roughly 83% of adults in the United States will visit a health care provider in the next year, an estimated
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7-22-10 Affordable Care Act Update
July 27, 2010
This message is being sent to NHO Senior Staff, ACS Advocacy Leaders, ACS Advocacy Personnel, Media Advocacy and ACS CAN Staff
Thank you to everyone who participated in this week’s training and helped to make it a great success. I hope you found the information helpful and the sessions productive. For those who could not be there, please remember this is an ongoing effort with additional materials and training coming up, including a Webex in August (date TBA).
New Messaging Documents
As we mentioned during the Atlanta training, ACS CAN staff have developed new messaging around Affordable Care Act implementation that is ready for you to use. The messaging centers on the following theme: Making the Affordable Care Act work for people with cancer will save lives. If this sounds familiar, it is because the Society and ACS CAN continue to view the health care system through the “cancer lens,” as we have since the launch of the Access to Care Initiative in 2007.
After being besieged with misinformation during the health care debate, the public lacks an understanding of the law’s provisions. This is true even among families affected by cancer, as ACS CAN’s recent national cancer poll found. Our messaging emphasizes the importance of meaningful reform to helping people prevent and fight cancer. It explains how the Affordable Care Act will help people with cancer and their families access quality health care, why ACS CAN got involved in the health care debate, and what the Society and ACS CAN are doing to ensure that the new law is both implemented strongly and strengthened over time.
Christopher W. Hansen
President
American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS