Implement Health Care Reform
Why Your American Cancer Society Fights to Implement Health Care Reform
This map, showing how implementation of the Affordable Care Act will reduce the number of uninsured in every region of New York, was prepared by a contractor helping New York State plan for implementation of the ACA. It predicts that 1.1 million currently underinsured New Yorkers will have adequate health insurance coverage a year after the ACA takes effect in 2014. We think the number gaining coverage may turn out to be even larger than predicted here, because nearly half the residual 1.7 million uninsured will be eligible for Medicaid, and many of them will respond to enhanced recruitment efforts.
Nonetheless, the map provides a good measure of how the ACA will benefit residents in every community in New York.
Map: Impact of Federal Health Reform on New York's Uninsured [PDF 121KB]
New York Campaigns
- Implement Health Care Reform
- Save Tobacco Prevention Funding
- Restrict Tobacco Advertising and Marketing
- Combat Obesity
- Protect New Yorkers From Secondhand Smoke
- Maintain the Cancer Services Program
- 2012 New York Legislative Priorities
- Restrict the Sale of E-Cigarettes
- Ban Flavored Tobacco Products
- Keep Kids From Getting Skin Cancer
Unless specifically noted otherwise, the Society, and not ACS CAN, is conducting the activities described on this page.
