Health Care Reform
Health Care Issues Seen Through the Cancer Lens
The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) believes that everyone should have meaningful public or private health insurance that is adequate, affordable, available, and administratively simple.
Inadequate access to timely, quality health care is one of the greatest barriers to winning the war on cancer. Individuals and families who lack meaningful insurance often go without preventive care despite research showing that early detection and timely treatment are effective in improving outcomes. Those who are uninsured and underinsured are less likely to receive cancer prevention services, more likely to be treated for cancer at late stages of disease, more likely to receive substandard care and services, and more likely to die from cancer. Click here to view the “Cost of Doing Nothing in North Carolina.”
Click here to read personal stories that were taken from actual phone calls to the American Cancer Society’s National Cancer Information Center (NCIC) and illustrate the shortcoming of our current system in each of these areas. Cancer is a universal health concern, and cancer patients know firsthand the gaps in our health care system, as demonstrated below. (Identifying information in the stories has been changed for privacy reasons.)
Click here for some Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ’s) on Health Care Reform.
There have been a lot of myths going around on Health Care Reform. Click here to see the Myths vs. Realities on this issue.
North Carolina Campaigns
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