1. Where do you stand on guaranteed access to quality health care for all?

All men, women and children must have guaranteed access to quality health care regardless of their ability to pay. NBCC is pursuing legislation that meets these principles for access to care.

2. Where do you stand on ensuring $150 million for the Department of Defense Peer-Reviewed Breast Cancer Research Program?

Launched in 1992 in response to NBCC's campaign for increased federal funding, this unique research program funds innovative grants within a structure that brings scientists and consumers together in making policy decisions at all levels.

3. Where do you stand on the enactment of the Breast Cancer Environmental Research Act (S. 579/H.R. 1157)?

This legislation will establish a national strategy to study the role that the environment plays in the development of breast cancer, through competitive peer reviewed NIH grants.

4. Where do you stand on the preservation of the Medicaid Breast and Cervical Cancer Treatment Program?

NBCC's advocacy resulted in passage of the Breast and Cervical Cancer Treatment Act, which expanded access to treatment for thousands of underserved women diagnosed with breast or cervical cancer through federal screening programs.

NBCC has already contacted the candidates to get their written responses to these questions. We also asked that they include their health care proposals that address our top priority of guaranteed access to quality health care for all. We will post their answers on our website in October. Please visit http://www.stopbreastcancer.org/ to check their answers and learn you can participate in NBCC's other election related efforts. The results of the 2008 elections may have dramatic implications on the fight against breast cancer. Stay tuned to this blog for more developments.

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