NCCS Statement on the Passage of the STAR Childhood Cancer Act and the Right to Try Act
Silver Spring, MD – The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship issued the following statement regarding passage of both the Childhood Cancer Survivorship, Treatment, Access, and Research (STAR) Act (S. 292) and the Trickett Wendler, Frank Mongiello, Jordan McLinn, and Matthew Bellina Right to Try Act (S. 204). Both are now ...
Health Care Roundup: 2018 Cancer Status Report; Childhood Cancer STAR Act Passes; “When a Rural Hospital Shuts Down;” and More
HEALTH CARE HIGHLIGHTS – Annual Cancer Status Report Released – On Tuesday, the Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer was released. This report is a collaborative effort of NCI, CDC, ACS, and NAACCR. The report includes mortality data through 2015. It shows that, from 1999 to ...
NCCS Joins Cancer Leadership Council to Oppose the Latest Version of Right to Try Act
NCCS joined the Cancer Leadership Council to express serious reservations about the latest version of the Trickett Wendler, Frank Mongiello, Jordan McLinn, and Matthew Bellina Right to Try Act, released on March 10, 2018. We oppose the latest version of right to try legislation because it makes a hollow promise ...
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 that will remove the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from the approval process for patient access to an investigational therapy outside a clinical trial. NCCS does not believe that right to ...
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 ...
What Caught Our Eye: Idaho Allows Insurers to Ignore ACA Rules; Op-ed: Right to Try a ‘Disaster in the Making’; Financial Toxicity; and More
What Caught Our Eye is our week-in-review blog series. “Obamacare will survive as Republicans give up on repeal” | By Dylan Scott, Vox.com — The Affordable Care Act is going to survive. The 2010 health care law has slowly but surely moved out of the line of fire. President Trump ...
WCOE: Countering HHS’s ACA Enrollment Suppression, FDA’s Gottlieb on Expanded Access/Right to Try, “Cancer Stories No One Wants to Hear”
What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) is our week-in-review blog series, where we recap the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. — “As ACA enrollment nears, administration keeps cutting federal support of the law” – By Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post — With the fifth enrollment season set ...
What Caught Our Eye 8/4: GOP Governors Look to Cut Medicaid, Young Cancer Survivors Struggle Socially, Right to Try, FDA Funding, & 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. “Republicans in Congress Bypass Trump to Shore Up Health Law” - Via New York Times — Congressional Republicans moved on Tuesday to defuse President Trump’s threat to ...
What Caught Our Eye: House Passes ACA Repeal, Faces Senate Hurdles; Risky Prostate Cancer Treatment; Medical Debt; ‘Right to Try’; Rx Pricing
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. “House Republicans approved their plan to replace the Affordable Care Act on Thursday. Here’s a rundown of key provisions in the American Health Care Act and what ...
