Cancer society pushes for health-care reform
Progress against cancer and other devastating diseases is being stymied by the United States’ flawed health-care system, the national leader of the American Cancer Society said in Des Moines Tuesday.
John Seffrin, the group’s chief executive officer, noted enormous strides in research into cancer’s causes and cures. But he said those successes are blunted by the fact that many Americans don’t receive adequate, timely screening and treatment.
Seffrin met Tuesday morning with Des Moines Register editors and reporters before heading off on a bus tour of presidential candidates’ campaign headquarters. The tour was part of a coordinated campaign by the cancer society, AARP, the Alzheimer’s Association, the American Diabetes Association and the American Heart Association.
The effort is focusing on Iowa and other early-primary states, where activists plan to push candidates for specific plans to bring health care coverage to every American.
“The health-care system is broken, and you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who didn’t agree with that,” Seffrin said. He said his group will not endorse any candidates, but it will come up with criteria to help the public judge health-care proposals.
source : desmoinesregister.com
