Benjamin Lepper ’25, a pediatric cancer survivor, is advocating for greater access for children in need of life-saving cancer treatment. Photo credit: Michael Ivins/Holy Cross
When it comes to improving access to care for childhood cancer patients, Benjamin Lepper ’25 uses his inner strength pulled from personal experience to advocate for change.
This fall, Lepper joined advocates from the New England region of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) in Washington, D.C., to lobby Massachusetts Congressional members in support of the bipartisan Accelerating Kids’ Access to Care Act. The bill would improve children’s access to needed out-of-state health care by streamlining the Medicaid provider screening and enrollment process.