On Spectrum News, NBCC Chief Policy Officer Melanie Wyne and advocate Jo Lynn Collins discussed the Senate reintroduction of the Metastatic Breast Cancer Access to Care Act and what its passage would mean for those who currently must wait for access to the Social Security Disability Insurance and Medicare benefits for which they are eligible.
NBCC advocate Jo Lynn Collins:
Many of us will end up working literally until we die because of the way that our system is set up to not give people who have been approved for Social Security Disability access to Medicare in a timely fashion. I am living that experience every day.
