Sequestration has been applied to Medicare, which is bad news for all seniors, but likely devastating for seniors fighting cancer. This is because the government has decided to apply the sequester payment cut not only to cancer care services, but also to the fixed, pass-through costs of chemotherapy and related essential cancer-fighting drugs used to treat and manage this life-threatening disease.
We petition the Obama Administration to use its authority to stop the sequester cut to the fixed cost of cancer drugs, payment for which is specifically set by law and should not be reduced by sequestration. Failure to stop the sequester cut to cancer drugs will imperil the nation's cancer care delivery system, already in crisis due to excessive payment cuts, for all cancer patients.