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Coronavirus and Cancer Resources for Survivors

Cancer survivors have expressed concerns and questions about COVID-19, the coronavirus, and how they may be at higher risk due to their cancer history. Here are some resources about COVID-19 generally, and its impact for cancer survivors specifically. NCCS is seeking answers from public health experts on the coronavirus and its impact on cancer patients and survivors. Please leave a comment [...]
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My Takeaway from Hill Visits: Empathy is in Short Supply

With the health reform debate moving to the Senate following passage of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) in the House, I’ve spent the last few weeks meeting with numerous Senate offices on both sides of the aisle. During one such meeting with a Republican Senator’s health policy team, I outlined the many reasons the AHCA would be harmful to cancer patients, survivors, and their families. High on that long list of issues are the [...]
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ACA Update | June 2, 2017: AHCA is Widely Unpopular, Senate Continues Negotiations

During meetings with Senate offices this week, NCCS learned that negotiations continue and a consensus on the Senate version of the AHCA has yet to be struck among Republicans in the chamber. However, we also learned alarming news that the Senate version is likely to be very close to the version the House passed in early May. Anything that remotely resembles the AHCA would be catastrophic, and we cannot allow such a [...]
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What Caught Our Eye: Only 31% View AHCA Favorably, Immunotherapy Hope & Hype, Male Breast Cancer, the Stigma of Lung Cancer

What Caught Our Eye (WCOE), June 2, 2017: “Kaiser Health Tracking Poll Shows Americans View AHCA Unfavorably” — With Congress currently discussing the American Health Care Act (AHCA), a plan that would repeal and replace the 2010 health care law, this month’s Kaiser Health Tracking Poll finds that more Americans have an unfavorable view of the plan than a favorable one (55 percent vs. 31 percent, respectively). [...]
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ACA Update | May 26, 2017: CBO Confirms 23 Million More Uninsured Under AHCA, Trump Undecided on 2018 Subsidies

This week, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released their analysis on the impacts of the American Health Care Act (AHCA). As expected, the results were devastating. The AHCA would leave 23 million more Americans uninsured by 2026 than under the current law, the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The coverage [...]
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What Caught Our Eye: ‘Extremely High Premiums’ for the Sick, AHCA News, FDA Aims to Control Rx Pricing, & 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. Via Kaiser Health News — "The Republican overhaul of the federal health law passed by the House this month would result in slightly lower premiums and slightly fewer uninsured [...]
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NCCS Statement on CBO Report of Revised American Health Care Act

NCCS today issued the following statement following the release of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report on the updated American Health Care Act. “Today’s CBO report shows what we already knew—that the American Health Care Act (AHCA) would be devastating for cancer patients, survivors, and their families,” said NCCS CEO Shelley Fuld Nasso. “The revised AHCA that was passed by the House [...]
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NCCS Sends Letter to Sen. Hatch on Health Care Reform Priorities

(NCCS) sent a letter to Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, in response to his office’s request for input from stakeholders regarding health care reform. “As the Senate continues to discuss health care reform, and in light of the destructive American Health Care Act passed by the House, we must continue conveying the priorities of cancer patients and survivors,” said NCCS CEO Shelley Fuld Nasso. [...]
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What Caught Our Eye: AHCA Analysis, Medicaid Caps, Obamacare Helped Early Detection, ESPN’s Holly Rowe, Counseling Improves Care Planning

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 – 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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ACA Update | May 19, 2017: Senate Negotiates their Version of the AHCA, Waits for New CBO Score

This week, NCCS and other patient advocacy organizations met with Senate offices regarding health care reform. The groups explained that the American Health Care Act (AHCA) as passed by the House is a serious threat, and does not in fact protect individuals with pre-existing conditions such as cancer. As we reported recently, the MacArthur Amendment guts protections for pre-existing conditions by allowing states to opt out [...]
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Young Adult Cancer Survivors Worry What the AHCA Would Mean for Them

Last month, I had the honor of speaking at CancerCon, an incredible gathering of 650 adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer survivors, their caregivers, and health care providers and advocates from across the country. Along with Kelsey Nepote, NCCS Advocacy Manager, and Kate Houghton, CEO of Critical Mass, we presented “From Patient to Advocate – Using Your Voice to Make Change.” We talked about the journey from [...]

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