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

April 7, 2014

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 law that ensure cancer patients and survivors have access to health insurance coverage.

Key provisions included:

  • Cancer patients and survivors can no longer be denied insurance due to preexisting conditions
  • Elimination of annual or lifetime spending caps for insurance policies
  • Children can stay on their parents' health insurance plan until age 26

For some cancer survivors, this was the first time in decades they have been able to get individual health insurance.

Watch this short video featuring ACS CAN volunteers sharing their story about the law through the "cancer lens."

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