Health Care Reforms & Diabetes Crisis
This month Congress took one step closer to making changes to the health care system that can have a real benefit for people with diabetes. Draft health care reform bills have now passed through the committee process in both the House and the Senate.
The next step is for the Senate to combine its versions of health care reform legislation into one bill and vote on it, and for the House of Representatives to do the same. Please join me in sending a strong message that the time for health reform that considers the needs of people with diabetes is now.
We all need to contact our Members of Congress and ask them to pass health reform that is meaningful and affordable for people with diabetes.
The American Diabetes Association is meeting with Members of Congress and their staff every day, fighting to make sure that health care reform meets the needs of people with diabetes. Where we stand on health care reform is simple:
People with diabetes should not be denied health insurance coverage, lose their coverage, or have to pay higher premiums because of their health status.
Health insurance must include essential health care services for people with diabetes and reasonable limits on annual out-of-pocket costs to protect people with diabetes from financial hardship as a result of accessing critical care.
Health reform must also move our country forward in preventing diabetes.
The bottom line: People with, and at risk for, diabetes, need access to the tools to prevent diabetes and its devastating complications such as blindness, kidney failure, heart disease, and amputation.
Please ask your Members of Congress to ensure that health care reform meets the needs of people with diabetes.
Together, we can make a huge difference in the future health of people with diabetes.
The next step is for the Senate to combine its versions of health care reform legislation into one bill and vote on it, and for the House of Representatives to do the same. Please join me in sending a strong message that the time for health reform that considers the needs of people with diabetes is now.
We all need to contact our Members of Congress and ask them to pass health reform that is meaningful and affordable for people with diabetes.
The American Diabetes Association is meeting with Members of Congress and their staff every day, fighting to make sure that health care reform meets the needs of people with diabetes. Where we stand on health care reform is simple:
People with diabetes should not be denied health insurance coverage, lose their coverage, or have to pay higher premiums because of their health status.
Health insurance must include essential health care services for people with diabetes and reasonable limits on annual out-of-pocket costs to protect people with diabetes from financial hardship as a result of accessing critical care.
Health reform must also move our country forward in preventing diabetes.
The bottom line: People with, and at risk for, diabetes, need access to the tools to prevent diabetes and its devastating complications such as blindness, kidney failure, heart disease, and amputation.
Please ask your Members of Congress to ensure that health care reform meets the needs of people with diabetes.
Together, we can make a huge difference in the future health of people with diabetes.
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by Igal Koiman on -
If you need my help to stay with your Accue meter I can assist you confornting your Insurance to preserve your rights and choice. Just let me know I can escalate this process
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Permalink Reply by Andreina Davila on -
Our friends from Dialogue4Health, provided us with this link with key updated information about health care reform (in the US): Health Reform, from the Trust for America's Health.
There is a link there to a document that contains an updated list of representatives (House and Senate)
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Find contact information to write letters here. Trust for America’s Health has updated their list of the most critical Senators and Representatives; also copied below.
U.S. Capitol Switchboard (202) 224-3121
CRITICAL SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES TO REACH:
Senate (by state):
1. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) – Moderate Democrat
2. Chris Dodd (D-CT) – HELP Committee, prevention champion
3. Tom Harkin (D-IA) – Chairman, HELP Committee, prevention champion
4. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) – Moderate Democrat
5. Susan Collins (R-ME) – Moderate Republican
6. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) – Moderate Republican, Finance
7. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) – Moderate Democrat
8. Max Baucus (D-MT) – Chair, Finance Committee
9. Kent Conrad (D-ND)– Finance Committee
10.Ben Nelson (D-NE) – Moderate Democrat
11.Harry Reid (D-NV) – Majority Leader
12.George Voinovich (R-OH) – Moderate Republican
13.Ron Wyden (D-OR) – Finance Committee, health reform champion
House (by state):
1. Mike Ross (D-AR) – Energy and Commerce Blue Dog
2. Xavier Becerra (D-CA) – Deputy Chair, Democratic Caucus
3. Barbara Lee (D-CA) – Chair, Congressional Black Caucus
4. George Miller (D-CA) – Chair, Education and Labor Committee
5. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) - Speaker
6. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) – Chair, House Progressive Caucus
7. Henry Waxman (D-CA) – Chair, Energy and Commerce Committee, prevention champion
8. John Larson (D-CT) – Chair, Democratic Caucus
9. Baron Hill (D-IN) – Energy and Commerce Blue Dog
10.Steny Hoyer (D-MD) – Majority Leader
11.Charles Rangel (D-NY) – Chair, Ways and Means Committee
12.Louise Slaughter (D-NY) – Chair, Rules Committee
13.Nydia Velazquez (D-NY) – Chair, Congressional Hispanic Caucus
14.John Boehner (R-OH) – Minority Leader
15.James Clyburn (D-SC) – Majority Whip
16.Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (D-SD) – Blue Dog, Co-chair, Administration
17.Joe Barton (R-TX) – Ranking Member, Energy and Commerce Committee
18.Kay Granger (R-TX) – Chair, Congressional Study Group on Public Health
19.Donna Christensen (D-VI) – Chair, Congressional Black Caucus Health Braintrust
Also, here is a link to our health reform groups on TD:
Diabetics for Universal Health Care
US Healthcare Reform
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Permalink Reply by Jim Wright on -
Here is a letter I wrote to my Senators this morning on taxing diabetics to pay for the cost of health care reform:
http://tudiabetes.com/forum/topics/letter-for-your-senators
Whether you support or oppose anything like the current reform, taxing the ill and disabled from the poor and middle class to pay for it is repugnant, and we should all let our representatives know that this is unacceptable.
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Permalink Reply by Christalyn on -
I think it should be mandatory upon diagnosis that Doctors provide the patient with a list of information that should include: listing of all the local diabetic clinics, helpful websites, list of local diabetic educators, nutritionists, website of local Endos, and meds.
When I was diagnosed...they just gave me a 3 prescriptions, a 4th grade food chart and sent me home. If it wasn't for a guy at my job who was diagnosed a month before me, I really wouldn't know what to do.
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Permalink Reply by Igal Koiman on
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You are absolutely right about that. Just like you I got the same feedback from my doctor.
I strongly suspect that our common expirience is wide spread among all new diagnosed cases.
No wonder Diabetes getting growth momentum of epidemic.
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