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Tag Archive for: Susan Gubar

Health Care Roundup: Health Care Spending; Survivorship Care Delivery; Metastatic BC at NY Fashion Week; Susan Gubar on Financial Toxicity; More

February 22, 2019/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog Access to Care, Affordable Care Act, Clinical Trials, Financial Toxicity, Health Care Coverage, Health Equity Health Care Roundup, NCCS News

This week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published new health care spending projections for the United States. Unsurprisingly, Medicare spending growth is projected to outpace that of other payers in the coming decade due to enrollment growth and higher use of services. See a breakdown of the projections here. On Wednesday, six hospital groups laid out an eight-point plan for dealing with surprise medical billing, […]

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WCOE: No Action on ACA Stabilization Bill; ‘Black Cancer Matters’; Risks of At-Home Genetic Testing; Hospital Payment Reform; and More

March 23, 2018/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog Access to Care, Affordable Care Act, Disparities in Outcomes, Drug Pricing, Financial Toxicity, Health Equity, Payment Reform, Quality Cancer Care NCCS News

What Caught Our Eye (WCOE), is our week-in-review blog series. “Health insurers say the GOP-led Congress’ inaction on ACA stabilization legislation is sure to hurt consumers” Bruce Japsen, Forbes.com — After months of negotiating around an ACA stabilization package that was set to be included in this week’s spending bill, no agreement was made and the stabilization provisions were left out of the spending package all together. […]

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What Caught Our Eye: GOP Targets Employer Mandate, Hospitals Create Non-Profit Drug Company, Sex After Cancer, “Paperwork Paralysis”

January 19, 2018/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog, NCCS News Access to Care, Affordable Care Act, Health Care Coverage, Quality Cancer Care, Survivorship Care NCCS News

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. “Obamacare didn’t get repealed — so why did the uninsured rate still go up?” — The uninsured rate went up in 2017, new Gallup data shows — the first time this has happened since the Affordable Care Act’s coverage expansion took effect. This works out to an estimated 3.2 million fewer Americans […]

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What Caught Our Eye: Trump Acts to Undermine ACA; Susan Gubar Reviews ‘Cancer Humor’ Books; Life After Cancer; and More

October 13, 2017/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog Access to Care, Affordable Care Act, Care Planning, Financial Toxicity, Health Equity, Pre-Existing Conditions, Quality Cancer Care NCCS News

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. “Trump Administration To End Obamacare Subsidies For The Poor” – The Trump administration said Thursday that it would end the Affordable Care Act’s cost-sharing reduction payments designed to help low-income Americans get health care. Not paying the subsidies, health care experts have warned, […]

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What Caught Our Eye: Strengthening the ACA; the Harm of Medical Debt; Bone Symptoms After Treatment; and More

August 11, 2017/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog Access to Care, Affordable Care Act, Financial Toxicity, Health Equity, Quality Cancer Care, Survivorship Care NCCS News

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. Affordable Care Act – “Donald Trump Owns Obamacare Now” – Via Vox.com — “We’ve spent months now watching Congress debate and decide the future of the Affordable Care Act. Sometimes, we’ve even done so until 2 am, spending a very late night […]

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What Caught Our Eye: Poor Doctor-Patient Communication; Senate GOP & Medicaid Cuts; Using Cancer “Battle Words;” News from ASCO17

June 9, 2017/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog Access to Care, Affordable Care Act, Care Planning, Disparities in Outcomes, Financial Toxicity, Health Care Coverage, Health Equity, Quality Cancer Care NCCS News

What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) is our week-in-review blog series. June 9, 2017 | In the Spotlight: Via USA Today — For patients near the end of life, talking about their goals and values can help people avoid unwanted medical interventions, said Dr. Rachelle Bernacki, associate director of the Serious Illness Care Program at Ariadne Labs, a health care research center led by Dr. Atul Gawande. […]

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What Caught Our Eye: A Story of Two Survivors’ Enduring Friendship; GOP Still at Odds on Healthcare; Living with an Ostomy; The Perils of Hype in Cancer

April 28, 2017/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog Access to Care, Affordable Care Act NCCS News

What Caught Our Eye is our week-in-review blog series.“This is a story of survivors — of patients who were expected to die more than two decades ago but didn’t.” STAT News’ Bob Tedeschi provides an in-depth look Dr. Brian Druker and three of his patients, including Doralee Mortensen and Judy Orem, who became best friends after meeting in the clinical trials for the cancer drug Gleevec in the late 1990s.

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What Caught Our Eye: Costs of Care in a For-Profit System; New ACA Reporting; Precision Medicine; PSA Testing; End of Life Care

April 14, 2017/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog Access to Care, Affordable Care Act, Financial Toxicity, Health Care Coverage, Health Equity, Palliative Care, Quality Cancer Care, Survivorship Care NCCS News

What Caught Our Eye is our week-in-review blog series, where we recap the cancer policy articles that caught our attention. Published this week, Elisabeth Rosenthal’s An American Sickness: How Healthcare became Big Business and How You Can Take it Back describes the business of health care and how it fails patients. See her interview with Terry Gross on Fresh Air, as well as her tips for consumers to avoid unnecessary costs. […]

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What Caught Our Eye: A Cancer Survivor’s Comic, ACA Repeal Back on GOP Agenda, New Susan Gubar Piece, Past NCI Chief on Trump’s NIH Cuts

March 31, 2017/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog Access to Care, Affordable Care Act, Disparities in Outcomes, Health Equity NCCS News

Andy Slavitt, former acting director of CMS, argues that the failure of Trumpcare last week presents the opportunity to end the divisiveness that hampered the Obamacare era and move forward in a bipartisan direction that focuses not on destructive rhetoric, but squarely on reducing premiums and expanding access for all Americans. […]

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WCOE: NCCS Moonshot Op-Ed, ACA Enrollment Deadline, Susan Gubar, BRCA Gene and Family, Poor Treatment Outcomes for Minorities

January 29, 2016/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog Access to Care, Affordable Care Act, Clinical Trials NCCS News

What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we recap the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. NCCS CEO @sfuldnasso op-ed in @TheHill on #CancerMoonshot: Three questions @VP Biden's team needs to answer. https://t.co/3NAGYoyfHQ — NCCS – National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (@CancerAdvocacy) January 28, 2016 Still need health ins. for 2016? […]

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