Politics & Government

Rep. Israel to Speak in Huntington Tuesday

Lawmaker to speak at Huntington Hospital with cancer survivors to announce new legislation.

With the 2012 election eight months away, Rep. Steve Israel, D-Dix Hills, has made recent stops promoting his legislative agenda to district residents.

On Tuesday, Israel will appear with cancer survivors and nurses from the Oncology Nursing Society at Huntington Hospital to announce new legislation to provide newly-diagnosed Medicare patients with education about treatment plans following diagnoses of the disease.

Cancer survivors at the noon event will discuss challenges of navigating treatment without such assistance, according to an Israel press release.

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Israel says the legislative plan he supports will help fill a "critical void" between diagnosis and treatment for cancer patients. A request Friday for more specifics of the legislation was not returned by Israel's office to Patch.

Last week, Israel was in Plainview promising to advocate in the House for the highly-bipartisan HEART for Women Act (H.R. 3526/S.438) which would require the government to make more information available to doctors, researchers and the public.

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