American Diabetes Association: Fully Fund Diabetes in 2015

Congress will soon go home for the year, but first we need the House and Senate to take action in the fight against diabetes.

Take just one minute to tell Congress to fully fund diabetes.

Right now, Congress is back in session and is preparing to make critical funding decisions. We need them to pass legislation providing critical increased resources for diabetes research and programs at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) during Fiscal Year 2015.

Tell your Members of Congress it’s vital they do their part to Stop Diabetes® by passing a bill that fully funds diabetes research and programs. That is the best way to ensure the resources needed to improve diabetes innovation, prevention, and treatment, to prevent the costly complications, and to find a cure.

Nearly 30 million Americans have diabetes and another 86 million people have prediabetes, with those numbers growing every day. If we are going to reverse this epidemic, we must tell Members of Congress today to fully fund diabetes research and prevention programs at the NIH and CDC.

If you’re in the US, please take a moment and do this. Diabetes is no laughing matter.

American Diabetes Association: Fully Fund Diabetes in 2015

American Diabetes Association: Help seniors access CGM!

Please take a moment to sign this. Currently, most people using CGMs have to go off them when they go on Medicare. That’s not right. Quality of care and access to medical devices should not decrease just because one reaches 65.

The Medicare CGM Access Act of 2014 (S. 2689/ H.R. 5644) will provide Medicare coverage for continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) devices to qualified individuals, and provide an important pathway for the next generation of CGM-related technologies. Additionally, it will allow for better management of diabetes and reduce the risk of severe, and costly, complications.

American Diabetes Association: Help seniors access CGM!