NCCS and 33 Cancer-Related Patient Advocacy and Professional Organizations Jointly Oppose Senate’s Revised BCRA
Silver Spring, MD – The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) joined 33 cancer-related patient advocacy and professional organizations in opposition to the Senate’s revised Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA).
“The Senate’s BCRA, just as the House’s AHCA, is a direct threat to America’s 16 million cancer patients and survivors who rely on timely and uninterrupted access to comprehensive and affordable health care,” said NCCS CEO Shelley Fuld Nasso. “With an estimated 22 million losing coverage, severe cuts to Medicaid, and elimination of pre-existing condition protections, this bill is devastating for the American people, especially for anyone with a cancer diagnosis. It is time to end this threat that is causing fear and anxiety throughout the cancer community, and work towards bipartisan solutions to strengthen current law.”
The groups who joined the effort are:
- American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO)
- American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO)
- Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC)
- Association of Oncology Social Work
- Blue Faery: The Adrienne Wilson Liver Cancer Association
- CancerCare
- Cancer Support Community
- Children’s Cause for Cancer Advocacy
- Colon Cancer Alliance
- Cutaneous Lymphoma Foundation
- Critical Mass
- Deadliest Cancers Coalition
- Fight Colorectal Cancer
- FORCE: Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered
- Inflammatory Breast Cancer Research Foundation
- LIVESTRONG
- Living Beyond Breast Cancer
- Lung Cancer Alliance
- LUNGevity
- Lymphoma Research Foundation
- Melanoma Research Alliance
- National Brain Tumor Society
- National Breast Cancer Coalition
- National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship
- National Comprehensive Cancer Network
- National Patient Advocate Foundation
- Oncology Nursing Society
- Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Alliance
- Sarcoma Foundation of America
- Stupid Cancer
- Susan G. Komen
- Triage Cancer
- Us TOO International
- Young Survival Coalition
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