House Votes to Disapprove Medicaid Block Grant Guidance; Concerns Persist About Access Issues
The House of Representatives cast a vote of disapproval of guidance that would fundamentally alter the Medicaid program.
National Press Releases
With Flavors Still on the Market, E-Cigarette Executives Testify Before Congress
The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations holds a hearing on e-cigarette use in the United States amid an ongoing youth tobacco epidemic and one day before the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is set to begin enforcement of the agency’s weak guidance released in early January that put industry profits above the health of children.
Improving the Nation’s Health Care System Should Be Top Priority in State of the Union Address
Cancer patients, survivors and caregivers will tune into the president’s State of the Union address tonight, watching to see if the president will commit to improving the nation’s health care system by preserving access to comprehensive and affordable health care coverage.
Medicaid Guidance Likely to Hurt Patients; Increase Number of Uninsured
Today the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced guidance that would fundamentally alter the Medicaid program.
Surgeon General Report: Expanding Access to Tobacco Cessation Services and Proven Tobacco Control Saves Lives
Washington, D.C. – January 23, 2020 – A report on smoking cessation released today by United States Surgeon General Jerome M.
Patient Groups Disappointed by Ongoing Uncertainty in Wake of Supreme Court’s Decision Not to Expedite Health Care Case
Patient and health advocacy groups representing millions of Americans with pre-existing conditions are disappointed over the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision today not to immediately take up the case of Texas v. United States.
Patient Groups Urge Supreme Court to Swiftly Take Up Health Care Case
Patient and health advocacy groups representing millions of Americans with pre-existing conditions filed an amicus curiae or friend of the court brief today urging the U.S. Supreme Court to immediately take up the case of Texas v. United States. The case is the latest court challenge to the health care law known as the Affordable Care Act.
FDA Puts Tobacco Interests Over Kids; E-Cigarette Flavor Guidance Won’t Address Growing Youth Epidemic
Washington, D.C. – January 2, 2020 – The U.S.
Statement on U.S. Rep. John Lewis Cancer Diagnosis
Washington, D.C. –U.S. Rep. John Lewis recently announced he has been diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer. A statement from Lisa Lacasse, president of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) follows:
House to Vote on Comprehensive Drug Pricing Legislation, Provisions Include Capping Medicare Patients’ Out-of-Pocket Prescription Drug Costs
The U.S. House will vote today on a bill intended to bring down patient prescription drug costs. Several of the bill’s provisions are important to cancer care, including establishing an annual cap on Medicare enrollees’ out-of-pocket expenses, allowing some Medicare beneficiaries to spread out high-cost prescription cost-sharing over the course of the year, and expanding Medicare eligibility for low-income subsidies.