Lisa A. Lacasse: House Members Must Stand up for Cancer Patients and Their Families by Protecting Medicaid
Lisa A. Lacasse, President of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), shared a post on LinkedIn:
“The time is now for Members of Congress to stand up for Medicaid, the lifesaving health insurance program that covers nearly 80 million people nationwide. The budget resolution in its current form cannot be accomplished without significant cuts to Medicaid.
These cuts would be detrimental to Medicaid and would likely result in a loss of services like prescription drugs for some, and coverage all together for others. This would be life-threatening for cancer patients and survivors and all those at risk of developing the disease. Research consistently shows that access to health insurance coverage through Medicaid increases cancer screenings rates, early-stage cancer diagnoses, and improves access to timely cancer treatment and survival rates.
Further, access to health insurance coverage is one of the most significant determining factors in an individual’s chance at surviving cancer. If Congress approves the budget in its current form, they would be ripping this chance of survival away from millions of people.”
Douglas Flora, Executive Medical Director of Oncology Services at St. Elizabeth Healthcare, shared this post adding:
“Sharing for reach. These issues are critical for all of us.
Thank you, Lisa A. Lacasse and team for helping people understand the critical role that Medicaid coverage plays in cancer care.”
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