Tagged with “President Barack Obama”

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

President Obama: Colonoscopies Save Money and Lives

In his speech before a joint session of Congress on September 9, 2009, President Obama called out colorectal cancer screening as saving both money and lives. To applause from listening members of Congress, he said:

And insurance companies will be required to cover, with no extra charge, routine checkups and preventive care, like mammograms and colonoscopies because there’s no reason we shouldn’t be catching diseases like breast cancer and colon cancer before they get worse. That makes sense, it saves money, and it saves lives.

We applaud the President’s public acknowledgment that colorectal cancer screening saves lives and money.

Screening saves lives by finding cancers early when they are most treatable. Screening also prevents colorectal cancer by finding and removing precancerous polyps, which keeps them from ever growing into cancer.

Posted by Kate Murphy on September 14th, 2009
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Tags: colonoscopy screening, HR 1189, President Barack Obama