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actualizedevs2018-03-08 13:08:082020-10-21 10:49:11Reps. DeSaulnier and Poe Introduce Bipartisan “Cancer Care Planning and Communications Act”Access to Care
Access to quality, affordable cancer care is essential for anyone with a cancer diagnosis. Access includes adequate health insurance that covers needed treatments without leaving people with cancer to suffer “financial toxicity.” People with cancer also need the ability to participate in a clinical trial, if it represents a potential treatment option.
Prior to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), cancer survivors were at the mercy of the health care system, often forced to pay exorbitant premiums or simply denied coverage altogether. Today, America’s 18.1 million cancer survivors benefit from the ACA’s patient protections that provide them with quality, affordable, and accessible health care coverage. Through the ACA, cancer patients and survivors can now purchase insurance through Healthcare.gov and state insurance exchanges. The ACA has afforded protections related to out-of-pocket expenses, lifetime caps, and pre-existing conditions.
Cancer Nation believes in the following principles for access to care:
- Individuals with pre-existing conditions must not be denied coverage or charged higher premiums.
- Plans must cover all essential health care needs.
- Adequate financial assistance must be provided to ensure people with low and moderate incomes can purchase health insurance.
- Insurers must not discriminate against older Americans, who are disproportionately impacted by cancer, or women.
- Cost-sharing protections must be maintained, including caps on out-of-pocket costs and the elimination of annual and lifetime maximum benefits.
- States should take advantage of the ACA’s Medicaid expansion, which provides coverage to low income individuals living with cancer.
- People with pre-existing conditions must not be segregated into high-risk pools, which are expensive and burdensome and do not meet the needs of cancer patients.
- Cancer patients must have access to comprehensive and well-coordinated cancer care, including clinical trials.
“For a cancer survivor, dealing with the collateral damage of cancer treatment and the continued surveillance for recurrence or secondary cancers, going without insurance is simply not an option. I am very worried that the proposed replacement for the ACA will harm cancer survivors, particularly people with low incomes and people over the age of 50. We simply can’t go back to the days before the ACA when cancer survivors could be denied coverage, and we must ensure people have access to quality, affordable health insurance.”
Michael Kappel, Cancer Nation board member and 13-year colon cancer survivor
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actualizedevs2018-03-08 13:05:512018-03-08 13:05:51NCCS Letter to DOL: Proposed Association Health Plans Rule “Will Increase Costs for Cancer Survivors and Others with Significant Health Needs”
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actualizedevs2018-03-05 11:40:182018-03-05 11:40:18NCCS Joins Letter Expressing “Serious Reservations” About “Right to Try” Legislation
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actualizedevs2018-03-02 17:26:372018-03-02 17:26:37What Caught Our Eye: NCI Chief Sharpless Interviewed; Expert Patients; “Why We Didn’t Seek Right to Try”; Progress in Survivorship Care; and More
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actualizedevs2018-02-28 12:21:582018-02-28 12:21:58Remembering Catherine Logan Carrillo, a Pioneer of the Survivorship Movement
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actualizedevs2018-02-23 16:33:082018-02-23 16:33:08What Caught Our Eye: Multiple Proposals Continue to Weaken ACA Patient Protections; Breast Cancer Cost Survey; Editing Genes to Treat Cancer
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actualizedevs2018-02-16 17:31:582018-02-16 17:31:58ACA Update February 16, 2018 | Idaho Insurer Rolls Out Health Plans That Violate ACA Regulations, Including Pre-Existing Condition Protections
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actualizedevs2018-02-09 17:31:302018-02-09 17:31:30What Caught Our Eye: Medicaid Coverage Limits; Cancer Care Cost Communication; Stanford Care Planning Study; Drug Pricing; and More
