As a breast cancer survivor, I know how important it is to have good health insurance. Good, comprehensive health insurance means being able to get checkups and cancer screenings, cancer treatment, and the follow-up care needed for life as a cancer survivor. It can mean the difference between life and death.

That’s why, when I went to our nation’s capital last week as a volunteer advocate with the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, in addition to advocating for federal cancer research and prevention funding and the bipartisan Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act, I also asked our members of Congress to extend crucial health care tax credits that help more than nearly 1 million North Carolinians afford comprehensive health insurance

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