ACS CAN shattered its goal and collected 55,000 petition signatures in support of meaningful health care reform in just three weeks. Signatures are being delivered to lawmakers from both political parties. In a few days, the U.S. House will take an historic vote on health reform legislation. So in addition to sending our petition to Congress, volunteers are sending individual letters to House members, too. While the legislation is not perfect, it is an important start toward fixing the health care system for cancer patients and their families and saving lives. Will you write a note to your Representative, letting him or her know how you feel about this legislation and its impact on the lives of cancer patients? www.acscan.org/SpeakOut
More than 300,000 people suffer from and lose their lives to cancer each year because they don’t have access to preventive care and treatment. That’s 822 people who will die every day that Congress waits to pass a bill. For ACS CAN, meaningful health care reform has never been about Republicans, Democrats or Independents. It’s about helping those 300,000 people and the millions of others who cannot access the care they need to fight a life-threatening disease such as cancer. It’s about making sure no person is denied health care because of a preexisting condition like cancer. It’s about putting an end to yearly or lifetime insurance caps that force cancer patients to cut off their care. And it’s about taking away the desperate choice so many cancer patients have to make between saving their lives or their life savings. It’s time for our elected leaders to put aside politics and put patients first by reforming our health care system.
The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network will keep fighting to make the health care system even better for cancer patients, and this legislation is an important first step. Will you help us by sending a message to your Representative? www.acscan.org/SpeakOutThe campaign for health care reform hasn’t been easy -- but we’ve come too far and accomplished too much to stop working for cancer patients.
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