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Number of Uninsured Unchanged as NJ Stalls on Exchange
September 12, 2012
Statement from Ethan Hasbrouck, NJ Director of Advocacy, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network re: the number of uninsured in New Jersey.
“As New Jersey’s health insurance exchange languishes in limbo, the numbers released today show that the state’s uninsured need the help an exchange will provide. This morning’s U.S. Census Bureau report shows that 1,336,000 million New Jersey residents are uninsured.
There are many steps needed to make an exchange operational by January 1, 2014 as required by the Affordable Care Act and time is running out. New Jersey lawmakers and Gov. Christie must reach an agreement to move forward on the exchange or the federal government will step in and impose an exchange of its own.
The exchange will help ensure that cancer patients have unrestricted access to high quality, affordable, adequate health insurance coverage that is simple to navigate and easy to understand. Today’s news shows that the exchange is vital to providing coverage to New Jerseyans who don’t have access to healthcare.”
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About the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network
ACS CAN, the nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy affiliate of the American Cancer Society, supports evidence-based policy and legislative solutions designed to eliminate cancer as a major health problem. ACS CAN works to encourage elected officials and candidates to make cancer a top national priority. ACS CAN gives ordinary people extraordinary power to fight cancer with the training and tools they need to make their voices heard. For more information, visit www.fightcancer.org.