Childhood cancer survivors' familiarity with and opinions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) offers avenues to increase insurance options and access to care; however, it is unknown whether populations with pre-existing conditions, such as cancer survivors, will benefit from the expanded coverage options. We explored childhood cancer survivors' familiarity with and opinion of the ACA to understand how survivors' insurance coverage may be affected.

Materials and methods

From April to July 2012 we conducted in-depth, semistructured telephone interviews with 53 adult survivors recruited from the Utah Cancer SEER Registry. Participants were randomly selected from sex, age, and rural/urban strata and were younger than 21 years at time of diagnosis. Interviews were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed with NVivo 9

SUBMITTER: Warner EL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3770506 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature