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What Caught Our Eye: AHCA Analysis, Medicaid Caps, Obamacare Helped Early Detection, ESPN’s Holly Rowe, Counseling Improves Care Planning

May 20, 2017/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog Access to Care, Affordable Care Act, Care Planning, Health Care Coverage, Pre-Existing Conditions, Quality Cancer Care NCCS News
What Caught Our Eye (WCOE), May 20, 2017
What Caught Our Eye is our week-in-review blog series, where we recap the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention.

In the Spotlight

“AHCA could raise premiums for millions with pre-existing conditions”

AHCA could raise premiums for millions with pre-existing conditions https://t.co/D1umX1EG8D pic.twitter.com/u3Y1gMFCBk

— Modern Healthcare (@modrnhealthcr) May 17, 2017


Via Modern Healthcare: “Up to 6.3 million people could end up paying substantially higher premiums if a bill similar to the House’s Obamacare replacement becomes law, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.”
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Affordable Care Act

“Obamacare Helped Americans Detect Cancer Earlier”

The proportion of newly diagnosed tumors being stage 1, when easier to treat, rose following ACA: https://t.co/37M6xjxlhk via @business

— Michelle Fay Cortez (@FayCortez) May 17, 2017

Via Bloomberg News — “The number of Americans whose cancers were diagnosed at the earliest stage, when it’s most likely to be cured, increased after Obamacare went into effect and more citizens had access to health insurance, a new study found.”
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“Can States Survive The Per Capita Medicaid Caps in the AHCA?”

How would the #AHCA's per capita caps on #Medicaid impact state budgets? Read Vernon K. Smith's new post https://t.co/pyUU5Xs1km

— Health Affairs (@Health_Affairs) May 17, 2017

Via Health Affairs — “The proposed shift in fiscal responsibility from the federal government to the states is so large, no amount of new flexibility could allow a response that wouldn’t include large state tax increases or severe reductions in coverage that would affect the medical services needed by the millions now served by Medicaid.”
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“Sounds Like a Good Idea? High Risk Pools”

Via Kaiser Health News — “High-risk pools are a key concept that helped House Republicans pass their replacement for the Affordable Care Act. This video explains high-risk pools and shows why they haven’t worked well in the past.”
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“Trump’s health chief pushes ‘waivers’ for states from Obamacare rules, as HHS says program in ‘death spiral'”

Trump's health chief pushes 'waivers' for states from Obamacare; HHS says program in 'death spiral' https://t.co/ZUAXxcIMZR

— Dan Mangan (@_DanMangan) May 16, 2017

Via CNBC.com — “The U.S. Health and Human Services Department — which oversees the Obamacare law — released a new tool Tuesday to help states seek waivers from certain Obamacare rules, as the department continued the Trump administration’s push to undercut the Affordable Care Act.”
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Cancer Policy

“One in Five Cancers Diagnosed in the United States Is a Rare Cancer”

New review: the burden of rare cancers in the US https://t.co/HHRhqNdMAY pic.twitter.com/3Aw9pmEYYC

— CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians (@CAonline) May 19, 2017

A new report, appearing in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, finds rare cancers account for more than two in three cancers occurring in children and adolescents. The authors say the proportion of rare cancers is likely to grow as the use of molecular markers to classify cancers increases.
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Coping with Cancer

“ESPN’s Holly Rowe Finds Work Cathartic as She Battles Cancer”

.@sportsiren We know there r tough times ahead but please know AIM and the melanoma community are supporting you. https://t.co/iumAxADOUK

— aimatmelanoma (@AIMatMelanoma) May 22, 2017

Via New York Times — Holly Rowe, an ESPN sideline reporter, announced that she was again battling cancer and talks about how she finds work cathartic as she enters treatment:

“I don’t think about having cancer when I’m out here,” Rowe said before the tipoff of a W.N.B.A. game between the Minnesota Lynx and the Liberty, her first this season. “Monday, I have a CT scan and have treatment. I’ll be a cancer patient on Monday. I’m not thinking about it today.”
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“Counseling Improves Survivorship Plan Implementation for Low-Income Breast Cancer Survivors”

Counseling #breastcancer survivors about their #survivorship care plans may help their doctors provide better care https://t.co/YiQC6CEH4P pic.twitter.com/ZaZa2AHiQi

— National Cancer Institute (@theNCI) May 18, 2017

Via National Cancer Institute (NCI) — “Results from a randomized clinical trial show that providing counseling to breast cancer survivors about their survivorship care plans may help their doctors provide better care.”
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