What advocacy activities are the Society and ACS CAN currently engaged in relating to access to care?
In addition to our public education, research, and patient services addressing access to health care, the Society and ACS CAN are continuing their ongoing work in support of specific legislative priorities that address the access to health care crisis, such as: • Increasing the federal investment in medical research at the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute at a pace that at a minimum keeps up with medical inflation. • Implementation of the 2009 legislation providing the US Food and Drug Administration the broad authority to regulate the sale, advertising, manufacture, and distribution of tobacco products. Passage of this legislation was a major priority for the last decade and its implementation will help us in our smoking prevention efforts. Prevention is a major focus of our access to care efforts. • Ongoing work to boost state tobacco excise taxes and calling for Congress to increase the federal tobacco tax to enhance federal prevention and access to ca
