What Caught Our Eye: Graham-Cassidy Fails; Cancer Survivorship Care Lacking in Primary Care; A Survivor’s Cancer Care Wishlist

“The Health 202: Five lessons from the GOP’s failed effort to repeal Obamacare”

In today's Health 202, the 5 lessons from the Senate's 2 repeal failures. https://t.co/FHGTVZJlHK

— Paige W. Cunningham (@pw_cunningham) September 27, 2017

By Paige Cunningham, Washington Post — Some Republicans will forever carry a torch for repeal of the Affordable Care Act. But it’s hard to see how the door really opens again in the near future — at least as widely as it has been since the start of President Trump’s tenure.
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“The Trump administration is waging an unprecedented war on governing”

My rant about the Trump cabinet's war on the agencies they're supposed to be leading: https://t.co/i3wQsx5D9S

— Paul Waldman (@paulwaldman1) September 28, 2017

Washington Post Opinion Pages — “I have truly never seen anything like that in all my years of observing politics. This is the agency that is mandated by law to implement the Affordable Care Act, which includes taking all the steps it can to maximize enrollment, proclaiming that it has no intention of doing so. It’s mind-boggling.” – Paul Waldman, Washington Post.

“Trump voter who survived cancer: Graham-Cassidy health bill worst by far”

https://t.co/R52HHCNCVY

— Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉 (@ASlavitt) September 25, 2017

USA Today Op-Ed — The president said everyone would be covered. I got critical treatment through Obamacare then watched in horror as he and his party tried to repeal it.

The last Democrat I voted for was Jimmy Carter. The last Republican I voted for was Donald Trump. After the past eight months, I am now a health care voter. My story, and my family’s story, is like so many others. In 2008, after a 20-year career in health care, I became another statistic in the number of uninsured Americans and no longer had a job or employer-provided health care. I had followed the American dream and started my own small business. I am a barber in Tennessee and I love it. I was able to get insurance through my wife’s job.
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“5 Health Care Wishes from a Cancer Survivor”

What's on your health care wish list? https://t.co/QpAecN95fk

— CURE Magazine (@cure_magazine) September 26, 2017

By Barbara Tako, Cure Magazine — There are times when I wish my doctors knew what it felt like to have breast cancer, not that I would wish cancer on anyone. Then there are insurance companies—they don’t seem to recognize the emotional impact of hearing, “You have cancer.” I wish our system allowed oncology doctors to spend more time with patients. Looking back, the nurses and physician assistants (PAs) spent more time with me than the doctors—because insurance allowed it.
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“Comprehensive cancer survivorship services lacking in primary care”

Comprehensive #cancer survivorship services lacking in #primarycare: https://t.co/6vKpN3rBHD @RWJMS

— Healio Primary Care (@HealioIM) September 25, 2017

Healio.com — New data have demonstrated an absence of comprehensive care for cancer survivors integrated into primary care practices.

“Despite a decade of effort by national stakeholders to bring cancer survivorship to the forefront of primary care, there is little evidence to suggest that primary care has begun to integrate comprehensive services to manage the care of long-term cancer survivors,” Ellen B. Rubinstein, PhD, from the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, N.J., and colleagues wrote in their study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.
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“ACA Medicaid expansion cut disparities in cancer care for minorities, poor”

#ACA Medicaid expansion cut uninsured >50%, AA & poorest helped most https://t.co/wFoRr2ogmB

Great work @fumikochino @DukeCancer #ASTRO17

— Yousuf Zafar, MD MHS (@yzafar) September 26, 2017

Duke University Medical Center — States that fully expanded their Medicaid programs under the Affordable Care Act cut their rates of uninsured cancer patients by more than half between 2011 and 2014. Black patients and those living in the highest poverty areas saw the greatest benefit from Medicaid expansion, according to a Duke Cancer Institute analysis.
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