Updates matching "Wisconsin"

ACS CAN Wisconsin Volunteer, Linda DeGarmo, recently went to Washington D.C. to ask Congress to pass the STAR Act. Linda is a resident of Chaseburg, Wisconsin and was featured in the La Crosse Tribune .

Wisconsin volunteer, Kathi Hansen, writes a letter to the Green Bay Press Gazette about critical policy supporting health care and cancer research.

Read the memo here. As the Joint Finance Committee finalizes Wisconsin’s biennial budget, twenty-five organizations urge the committee to preserve the provision in the Assembly GOP tax and transportation package that closes a loophole in current law which allows cigarette-like little cigars to be taxed less than cigarettes.

ACS CAN volunteers David and Kari Reilly shared with us a letter they submitted to the Janesville Gazette newspaper, describing the importance of reliable health insurance for their family. It reads: "Insurance coverage and patient protections are crucial to our family. David was diagnosed with and treated for cancer 20

ACS CAN Wisconsin advocate, Kay Lock, said it so well in her recent letter to the editor, “I am the parent of a cancer survivor, and my plate is pretty full. I worry about reoccurrence. I worry about his future. I worry about what’s to come for all my children.

For Tiffany Koehler, ACS CAN Wisconsin advocate, Medicaid was her lifeline to lifesaving treatment after being diagnosed with stage IV non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. She’s not alone. More than a million cancer patients and survivors rely on Medicaid for their care, and the current health care proposal in Congress could put access