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Skin cancer rates, and deaths, rising fast for seniors and others. This may have to do with the lack of clearly defined health care coverage for annual skin cancer screenings everyone by both private insurers and by Medicare/Medicaid. -------------------------------------- May 17th, 2019 re: skin cancer rates doubling! Time to REQUIRE Medicare, Medicaid and all medical insurances to categorically pay for comprehensive skin cancer screenings. Dear Congressman Larson and others: Some of you in DC are asleep at the wheel...of government. Here's why-> Summer is often associated with thoughts about how to prevent skin cancer. Ads for Sun block lotions, warnings to go see doctors. Fine. BUT payments for skin cancer screening by Medicare and other insurers is not guaranteed. Incredible given increasing rates of skin cancers for Americans! Here is chart from the federal Centers for Disease Control showing actual and predicted incidences of Melanoma (somet...