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NCCS Health Care Roundup: Opposing Medicare Part D Changes; Medicare-for-All Comparisons; Cancer Patients Suicide Risk Study; More

January 18, 2019/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog Access to Care, Affordable Care Act, Financial Toxicity, Health Equity Health Care Roundup, NCCS News /by actualize
In order to bring you the latest cancer-related health care policy and news, we at NCCS combined our ACA Updates and What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) content into a weekly email and blog post. We aim to make this a concise, one-stop summary of what you need to know as we continue working together to make cancer care better for everyone.Your feedback is always welcome to make our content more useful to you. Please send comments to feedback@canceradvocacy.org.

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HEALTH CARE HIGHLIGHT

Protecting Medicare Part D's Protected Classes and Congressional Updates

This week, NCCS joined the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network in a campaign against proposed Medicare Part D changes. More than 50 groups joined the campaign in opposition to the administration’s proposal to change Medicare Part D's protected classes drug coverage, which would give Medicare plans the option to limit coverage of drugs in six categories, including cancer drugs.

The government shutdown continues, but Congress is in session and other legislative priorities continue to move forward. Committee assignments continue to roll out this week as Rep. Lloyd Doggett (TX-35) was named as health subcommittee chair on Ways and Means. His position on the committee will make him an important player in all health care matters in 2019. Rep. Anna Eshoo (CA-18) was confirmed as the health subcommittee chair of the Energy and Commerce Committee.  Meanwhile, on the Senate side, Republican Members on the Finance committee met to discuss drug pricing with HHS Secretary, Alex Azar. Reporting indicates that GOP members remain split on drug proposals and how best to move forward.


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Compare Democrats' many Medicare-for-All proposals with this chart

PBS Newshour

Medicare-for-All and other proposals to expand health coverage will be getting a lot of attention in the 116th Congress. Check out the chart below created by PBS that shows what each proposal would do.

Chart: PBS Newshour

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IMPORTANT READS

Arkansas a 'cautionary tale' for states considering Medicaid work requirements, health advocates say

Arkansas Times

The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities released an analysis on Arkansas's work requirement policy for certain Medicaid beneficiaries, saying the “CBPP report concludes that Medicaid work requirements are inherently flawed and ‘can't be fixed.’" This comes just a few days after updated numbers were released in Arkansas that show 18,164 low-income people were “kicked off the government-funded insurance program due to work rule noncompliance in 2018.”

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Suicide risk 4 times worse for cancer patients, study finds — What clinicians can do to help

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A study from Penn State College of Medicine provides new insights into suicide rates of cancer patients.  In addition to the headline, the article also points this is a “two-fold increase from a similar 2002 study.”

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Can States Fix the Disaster of American Health Care?

New York Times

Bold health initiatives proposed by officials in California, Washington and other states could create blueprints to follow. Elizabeth Rosenthal argues that states have a solid track record when it comes to being good examples for experimentation, such as when Massachusetts introduced “Romneycare” in 2006, which was the blueprint for the Affordable Care Act.

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Regular Physical Activity — Even Initiated Postdiagnosis — Improves Survival for Cancer Patients

Oncology Nurse Advisor

The article highlights that "the study, which was published in the journal Cancer Causes & Control, found that people who exercised regularly as a lifestyle — both before and after diagnosis — experienced a 39% reduced risk of mortality compared with patients who were inactive as a lifestyle."

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A Cancer Rap, With Thanks to Nina Simone

New York Times

This week, in the New York Times' “Living With Cancer” section, a cancer survivor writes how after many cancer-related setbacks, she started singing along to Nina Simone.

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    • 2020 State of Cancer Survivorship Survey
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  • Get Involved
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“Perhaps one of the most impactful collaborations in Dr. Brereton’s extraordinary career remains his early work and long friendship with Ellen Stovall. Through him, and in turn through the thousands of lives he has touched, Ellen’s work continues, and her mission lives on.”

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