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C3 Pushes Congressional Leaders to Improve the Pending Health Care Reform Bill

Today, C3 joined with twenty-one groups to send a letter to Congressional leaders about ways Congress can improve the final health care reform bill to make high quality and affordable health care available to cancer patients.

House and Senate Leadership were back at the White House today for another day-long negotiation session aimed at reconciling differences between the House-passed and Senate-passed bills. President Obama is scheduled to met with Democrats this evening at the Democrats’ annual issues conference to talk about health care reform.

Congressional leaders are working to get a final compromise agreed to, and sent to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) by Friday. CBO will need 10-15 days to analyze the bill and put together a cost estimate. Members want to see a final cost estimate and analysis before voting on the package.

Posted by Catherine Knowles on January 14th, 2010
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Tags: Health Care Reform, House of Representatives, Senate

Senate Passes Health Care Reform; Congress on Track to Send President a Final Bill in January

After 25 straight days of debate, by a vote of 60-39, today the Senate approved the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

In January, the House and Senate will begin the difficult task of reconciling the differences between the bills they have passed.

There are a number of provisions in both the House-passed and Senate-passed health care reform bills that will affect colorectal cancer patients. Click here to see a chart outlining and comparing these provisions.

Posted by Catherine Knowles on December 24th, 2009
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Tags: Health Care Reform, House of Representatives, President Barack Obama, Senate

Senate to Consider Clinical Trials Amendment

After three days of general debate, the Senate voted on four amendments to its health care reform bill today. The Senate will continue with debate on additional amendments this evening.

As the Senate moves forward with consideration of additional amendments, Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) is planning on offering an amendment requiring that all third-party payers cover routine patient care costs incurred by patients enrolled in clinical trials. The amendment will apply to all phases of clinical trials for cancer and other life-threatening illnesses.

Posted by Catherine Knowles on December 3rd, 2009
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Tags: Health Care Reform, Senate, Senator Brown

Health Care Reform and Colorectal Cancer

There are a number of provisions in both the House and Senate health care reform bills that will affect colorectal cancer patients. Click here to see a chart outlining and comparing these provisions.

Posted by Catherine Knowles on November 24th, 2009
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Tags: Health Care Reform, House of Representatives, President Obama, Senate