Lucy Bruce-Whitaker, Wheatfield, Indiana, will travel to Washington, D.C., September 21-23 to meet with Indiana lawmakers to advocate for health care that is accessible, affordable, available and administratively simple. Bruce-Whitaker will be one of nearly 600 American Cancer Society and American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) volunteers and staff from across the country calling for Action: Now Not Later on comprehensive health care reform.
Health care reform is about saving lives. ACS CAN wants people to be able to get the treatment they need, at a cost they can afford, through continuous coverage that they can easily understand. No cancer patient should ever have to choose between saving their lives or their lifesavings. To learn more, visit www.acscan.org/healthcare.
Speaking on behalf of cancer patients in Northwest Indiana, Bruce-Whitaker will explain that if we can improve the health care system for people with cancer, we will improve it for everyone else as well. Bruce-Whitaker will be in Washington, D.C., on Sept 21-23, 2009.
ACS CAN, the nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy affiliate of the American Cancer Society, supports evidence-based policy and legislative solutions designed to eliminate cancer as a major health problem. ACS CAN works to encourage elected officials and candidates to make cancer a top national priority. ACS CAN gives ordinary people extraordinary power to fight cancer with the training and tools they need to make their voices heard. For more information, visit www.acscan.org.