In general terms, how is the American Cancer Society looking to improve the U.S. health care system?
The American Cancer Society and its sister advocacy organization, ACS CAN, envision a health care system in which everyone has access to meaningful health insurance that is adequate, affordable, available, and administratively simple. For cancer patients, this is a system that fully covers prevention, early detection, treatment, and end-of-life care. By examining the system through the cancer lens, the Society and ACS CAN are spotlighting problems encountered by the more than 1.4 million Americans who are diagnosed with cancer each year. If we improve the health care system for cancer patients, we will improve it for millions of people with other life-threatening chronic diseases as well.
