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C3 President Carlea Bauman Testifies at Congressional Hearing

C3 President Carlea Bauman Today, the House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense held a public witness hearing about funding needs for the fiscal year 2011 defense appropriations bill. C3′s President, Carlea Bauman, testified at the hearing about the urgent need for more funding for colorectal cancer research.

Ms. Bauman thanked the Subcommittee members for including $15 million for the Department of Defense (DoD)’s Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program (PRCRP) in the fiscal year 2010 bill and urged them to increase the level of funding for the PRCRP to $50 million in fiscal year 2011. Continue reading…

Posted by Catherine Knowles on May 20th, 2010
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Tags: Appropriations, cancer research, DoD, FY 2011, House of Representatives, Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program, PRCRP

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

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

Congressman Boren Introduces the Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection Act of 2009

Congressman Dan Boren (D-OK)

C3: Colorectal Cancer Coalition is proud to support The Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection Act of 2009 (HR 1330) introduced by Congressman Dan Boren (D-OK). The bill would require group and individual health insurance plans provide coverage of colorectal cancer screenings.

Americans age 50-64 are a critical group when considering colorectal cancer. HR 1330 will provide the same protections to non-Medicare beneficiaries that are already provided to Medicare beneficiaries.

Congressman Boren lost his mother to colon cancer, and personally understands the need for early detection of the disease.

Click here to watch Congressman Boren speak on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Posted by Joe Arite on March 30th, 2009
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Tags: Boren, House of Representatives, Screenings