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Senate Bill 5580 was Introduced
Senator M.M. Neely, of West Virginia, introduced Senate Bill 5589 to authorize a reward for the discovery of a successful cure for cancer and to create a commission to inquire into the success of such cure. The reward was to be $5 million. $5 million in 1927 equates to $69 million today. The world of science, medicine, and technology has advanced in so many ways, but there is still not a successful cure for cancer today. -
The Surgeon General gets Called On
Senator Homer T. Bone of Washington introduced Senate Bill 2067 authorizing the Surgeon General of the Public Health Services to control and prevent the spread of the disease of cancer. It authorizes an annual appropriation of $1 million. Today, the Surgeon General has been called upon to prevent skin cancer because it is a major public health problem in the United States. -
Promoting Cancer Research
Congressmen Maury Maverick of Texas introduced House Resolution 6767 to promote research in the cause, prevention, and methods of diagnosis and treatment of cancer to provide better facilities for the diagnosis and treatment. It established a National Cancer Center in the Public Health Service. It authorizes an appropriation of $2,400,000 for the first year and $1 million annually thereafter. Dr. Dudley Jackson of San Antonio, Texas helped draft the bill. -
National Cancer Institute is Established
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Act establishes the Institute as the federal government's principal agency for conducting research and training on the cause, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer. The legislation was signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to assist and promote similar research at other public and private institutes. -
National insurance program
November 19th 1945: President Harry Truman calls on Congress to create a national insurance program for those who pay voluntary fees. The American Medical Association denounces the idea as "socialized medicine" and it goes nowhere. -
Medicare and Medicaid
July 30th 1965: President Lyndon B. Johnson's legendary arm-twisting and a Congress dominated by his fellow Democrats lead to creation of two landmark government health programs: Medicare for the elderly and Medicaid for the poor. -
Private insurance for workers
In February, 1974: President Richard Nixon wants to require employers to cover their workers and create federal subsidies to help everyone else buy private insurance. The Watergate scandal intervenes. -
Proposal for Universal Coverage
March 4th, 1993: President Bill Clinton puts first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton in charge of developing what becomes a 1,300-page plan for universal coverage. This plan required businesses to cover their workers and everyone is to have health insurance. Many Democrats were against this plan and offered plans against Clinton. Clinton’s plan for universal healthcare coverage dies in Senate. -
Children's Health Insurance Program
Clinton signs bipartisan legislation creating a state-federal program to provide coverage for millions of children in families of modest means whose incomes are too high to qualify for Medicaid. -
Stamp Out Breast Cancer Act
The Stamp Out Breast Cancer Act establishes a special alternative rate of postage up to 25% higher than a regular first-class stamp. 70% of the profits from the sale of the stamp, also referred to as a semi-postal, would go to the NIH to fund breast cancer research and the remaining 30% would go to the U.S. Department of Defense breast cancer research. This success is an example of conscientious consumption in cause marketing. -
Patient Navigator Outreach and Chronic Disease Prevention Act of 2005
The Patient Navigator Outreach and Chronic Disease Prevention Act of 2005 amends the Public Health Service Act to provide patient navigator services to improve health care outcomes. The bill directs the HHS Secretary to require each recipient of a grant under this section to use the grant to recruit, assign, train, and employ patient navigators who have direct knowledge of the communities they serve to facilitate the care of individuals who have cancer or other chronic diseases. -
The National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program Reauthorization Act of 2007
The National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program Reauthorization Act of 2007 allows states to apply for federal waivers to spend a greater share of funds on hard-to-reach underserved women. This bill authorizes funding up to $275 million by 2012; $201 million is authorized for 2007. -
Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008
The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2007 prohibits health insurers and employers from requiring genetic testing or from using genetic information in decisions regarding insurance eligibility, coverage or premiums, or hiring, firing, or promotion. On March 5, 2008, the text of this bill, as passed by the House, was included in the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. -
Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act
The Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act extends expiring provisions under the Medicare Program, to improve beneficiary access to preventive and mental health services, to enhance low-income benefit programs, and to maintain access to care in rural areas, including pharmacy access, and for other purposes. This bill prevents a 10.6% cut in payments to physicians treating Medicare patients, freezes current payment rates for 18 months, and provides a 1.1% percent increase in 2009. -
The Affordable Care Act
Obama and the Democratic-controlled Congress spend an intense year ironing out legislation to require most companies to cover their workers; mandate that everyone have coverage or pay a fine; require insurance companies to accept all comers, regardless of any pre-existing conditions; and assist people who can't afford insurance. -
PPACA
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act mandates insurance coverage for all U.S. citizens throughout the country. The act does several things such as developing Patient Centered Outcomes research institute to help solve specific ailments that plague the population. It will also award grants and contracts to those that accelerate the development of high needs cures and therapies. The significance in this is that it will change some of the patient will now be paying with insurance. -
Cigarette Tracking Prevention
The Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking Act prevents the smuggling of cigarettes and tobacco products. It also ensures that the money received from the sale of tobacco products is collected. This does not impact funding for cancer centers directly, but has an indirect impact because of the reduced number of illegal tobacco products leading to a reduction in the amount of cancer patients. -
The Recalcitrant Cancer Research Act
The Recalcitrant Cancer Research Act was put into legislation in order to develop specific scientific framework for research that have a five year survival rate and a relative survival rate of less than twenty percent. The importance of this amendment it will provide more funding to pancreatic and lung cancer research in the hopes of finding a cure. -
Breast Cancer Research Stamp Reauthorization Act
The Breast Cancer Research Stamp Re-authorization Act created semipostal stamps that were used in for mailing purposes. In return the profits received from this act were split up seventy percent to NIH for research purposes and the thirty percent to the department of defense. This is significant because it is another source of funding being directed toward cancer treatment.
