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NCCS Letter to DOL: Proposed Association Health Plans Rule “Will Increase Costs for Cancer Survivors and Others with Significant Health Needs”
The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) submitted comments on the proposed rule on Association Health Plans (AHPs)…

NCCS Joins Letter Expressing “Serious Reservations” About “Right to Try” Legislation
NCCS joined with colleagues in the Cancer Leadership Council to express serious reservations about proposed “right to try” legislation…

What Caught Our Eye: NCI Chief Sharpless Interviewed; Expert Patients; “Why We Didn’t Seek Right to Try”; Progress in Survivorship Care; and More
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. – Health Insurance – “Bait And Switch: The Sneaky Way Your Employer Just Passed Healthcare Costs Onto You” By Peter Ubel, Forbes.com — With increasing frequency, employers are directing their workers to the kind of high deductible, high out-of-pocket insurance plans that leave workers financially responsible [...]

Remembering Catherine Logan Carrillo, a Pioneer of the Survivorship Movement
Catherine Logan Carrillo, co-founder of NCCS and its first Executive Director, died February 19 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Catherine founded Living Through Cancer, which eventually became People Living Through Cancer (PLTC), one of the first community-based peer support organizations for people dealing with cancer. After reading Dr. Fitzhugh Mullan’s seminal article, “Seasons of Survival: Reflections of a Physician with Cancer,” in [...]

What Caught Our Eye: Multiple Proposals Continue to Weaken ACA Patient Protections; Breast Cancer Cost Survey; Editing Genes to Treat Cancer
What Caught Our Eye is our week-in-review blog series — “Understanding Short-Term Limited Duration Health Insurance” — Karen Pollitz, Kaiser Family Foundation — The Health and Human Services Department published new rules Tuesday that expand access to short term health plans that exclude patients with preexisting conditions and don’t cover basic services like prescription drugs.

ACA Update February 16, 2018 | Idaho Insurer Rolls Out Health Plans That Violate ACA Regulations, Including Pre-Existing Condition Protections
Two weeks ago, NCCS reported in our ACA Update that Idaho regulators said they would allow the sale of insurance plans that don’t adhere to the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) requirements. This week, the state took it a step further when Blue Cross of Idaho unveiled health plans that break the ACA’s federal health laws in several ways. Blue Cross of Idaho will attempt to sell insurance plans that are priced based on applicants’ health status. [...]

What Caught Our Eye: Medicaid Coverage Limits; Cancer Care Cost Communication; Stanford Care Planning Study; Drug Pricing; and More
What Caught Our Eye is our week-in-review blog series. “After Approving Medicaid Work Requirements, Trump HHS Aims for Lifetime Coverage Limits” — After allowing states to impose work requirements for Medicaid enrollees, the trump administration is now pondering lifetime limits on adults’ access to coverage. Capping health care benefits — like federal welfare benefits — would be a first for Medicaid, the joint state-and-federal health plan [...]

