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Coronavirus and Cancer Resources for Survivors

Cancer survivors have expressed concerns and questions about COVID-19, the coronavirus, and how they may be at higher risk due to their cancer history. Here are some resources about COVID-19 generally, and its impact for cancer survivors specifically. NCCS is seeking answers from public health experts on the coronavirus and its impact on cancer patients and survivors. Please leave a comment [...]
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Poor Amendments Cannot Fix A Bad Bill

By Ben Fishman, NCCS Board Member—Three years ago this week, a specially-trained neurosurgeon opened up my scalp, and for next 12 hours, he delicately resected as much of a golf-ball sized tumor as possible without permanently damaging the area of my brain that controls speech and fine motor skills. The fact that I can type this article on a normal keyboard and read it aloud is a testament to the doctor’s skill. Without him, or the team who supported the procedure [...]
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ACA Update | April 28, 2017: AHCA 2.0 Is Released (Worse for Patients than the Original Bill)

As we previously reported, the American Health Care Act (AHCA) – the effort to replace the Affordable Care Act – was not even brought to a vote in the House of Representatives before the spring Congressional recess. Members of Congress confirm that advocates who opposed the AHCA were key to the failure of the original bill. Earlier this week, the full text of an amendment to the AHCA was published and is now being considered [...]
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What Caught Our Eye: A Story of Two Survivors’ Enduring Friendship; GOP Still at Odds on Healthcare; Living with an Ostomy; The Perils of Hype in Cancer

What Caught Our Eye is our week-in-review blog series.“This is a story of survivors — of patients who were expected to die more than two decades ago but didn’t.” STAT News’ Bob Tedeschi provides an in-depth look Dr. Brian Druker and three of his patients, including Doralee Mortensen and Judy Orem, who became best friends after meeting in the clinical trials for the cancer drug Gleevec in the late 1990s.
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ACA Update | April 21, 2017: House GOP Readies a Revised Health Care Bill

“Healthcare is not dead, we’re still working on it.” – Paul Ryan | During recess this week and last, Members of Congress continued to hear from constituents at town hall events where a major focus has been on health care and backlash against efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Meanwhile, the conservative House Freedom Caucus has been working with moderate Republicans to come up with an amendment to add to the [...]
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What Caught Our Eye: A New GOP Health Plan, Looming Uncertainty for Insurers, Sharing Genetic Cancer Risks with Children, and More

Trumpcare is back. And worse than ever. — Via Vox.com — “House Republicans are floating a new amendment to their health care bill — one that would likely cause even more Americans to lose coverage than the last version. Leaders of the staunchly conservative Freedom Caucus and the more moderate Tuesday Group have reportedly hashed out a proposal that would let some states ditch key Obamacare policies, such as the [...]
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ACA Update | April 14, 2017: Town Hall Headlines, Cost-Sharing Subsidies, the “Death Spiral”, and Trump’s Final “Market Stabilization” Rule

Although Members of Congress are on recess this week and next, talks of ACA and its future continue. Grassroots support of the ACA has made headlines again at town hall events across the U.S. during this recess. CBS News reports on several town hall meetings, where Republican lawmakers faced intense criticism for their position the American Health Care Act (AHCA). The Hill reports that some Members of Congress are [...]
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What Caught Our Eye: Costs of Care in a For-Profit System; New ACA Reporting; Precision Medicine; PSA Testing; End of Life Care

What Caught Our Eye is our week-in-review blog series, where we recap the cancer policy articles that caught our attention. Published this week, Elisabeth Rosenthal’s An American Sickness: How Healthcare became Big Business and How You Can Take it Back describes the business of health care and how it fails patients. See her interview with Terry Gross on Fresh Air, as well as her tips for consumers to avoid unnecessary costs. [...]
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ACA Update | April 10, 2017: New GOP Proposal Would Undermine Pre-Existing Condition Protections

As talks of repeal and replace quickly resurfaced after the downfall of the American Health Care Act (AHCA), Republican’s newest proposals are even more devastating for cancer patients than the AHCA would’ve been. The newest Republican health care proposals would eliminate even more patient protections, including the essential health benefits that require insurers to cover services such as chemotherapy, hospital visits, [...]
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What Caught Our Eye: Next Steps for the ACA; Gottlieb’s Confirmation; ASCO Statement on Right-to-Try; Gene Mutations in Childhood Survivors

Some key findings of the most recent Kaiser tracking poll: the public thinks it’s a “good thing” that the AHCA failed, believes President Trump and the Republican party are responsible for problems with the ACA going forward, and want to see the Trump administration make the ACA work for consumers. “Despite divided views towards the 2010 health law, three-fourths of the public think President Trump and his administration [...]
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What Caught Our Eye: A Cancer Survivor’s Comic, ACA Repeal Back on GOP Agenda, New Susan Gubar Piece, Past NCI Chief on Trump’s NIH Cuts

Andy Slavitt, former acting director of CMS, argues that the failure of Trumpcare last week presents the opportunity to end the divisiveness that hampered the Obamacare era and move forward in a bipartisan direction that focuses not on destructive rhetoric, but squarely on reducing premiums and expanding access for all Americans. [...]

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