A coalition of 86 organizations is urging Congress to pass the Clinical Treatment Act, a bill introduced in January that would guarantee coverage of the routine care costs of clinical trial participation for Medicaid patients with a life-threatening condition.
How’s this for a paradox: The better cancer centers become at keeping patients alive, the more expensive cancer care becomes. This brutal tradeoff hits harder in rural areas, where the cancer burden is higher and the investigator and clinical trial representation is lower.
