2025 Policy Platform
Learn more about our 2025 policy platform:
Expanding Access to Telehealth
Access to telemedicine is a valuable tool for supporting patients with chronic disease, who may be immunocompromised or have difficulty leaving their homes.
Addressing Step Therapy and Prior Authorization
Insurance companies often force patients to use cheaper treatments that have not been prescribed by a doctor in order to cut costs, with dangerous implications.
Copay Accumulator Programs
Insurance companies will take all the revenue from copay assistance, but then require patients to personally pay their deductibles and out-of-pocket maximums, eliminating the role of copay assistance.
Living Organ Donor Protections
Every year, 6,000 Americans become living donors of kidneys, livers, and other organs to save the lives of family members, friends, colleagues, and even complete strangers. Yet another name is added to the transplant waitlist every 10 minutes. Discriminatory insurance policy is dissuading people from participating in this crucial assistance.
Premium Assistance Bans
Insurance companies target patients with chronic diseases by rejecting their premium payments if they rely on financial aid from nonprofit organizations.
Chronic Disease Task Forces
The Chronic Disease Coalition’s top priority is to ensure patients’ voices are heard whenever patient issues are being discussed. Because legislators and state agencies aren’t experts on every single issue, they often rely on task forces of experts or affected citizens.
Expanding Medigap Coverage
Medigap plans (or Medicare supplemental insurance policies) cover some of the medication and treatment costs that traditional Medicare does not pay.
Protecting Access to Care
The Chronic Disease Coalition works tirelessly to protect and expand access to care for chronic disease patients, whether that be expanding Medicaid, Medicare, or access to innovative treatment.
Supporting the Healthcare Workforce
Patients need to have access to a diverse, qualified network of providers. But certain barriers present issues for the spectrum of chronic care providers – record burnout, staffing mandates, administrative burdens, lack of professional development opportunities, and others.
Expanding Access to Mental Health Care
The brain is part of the body – but too often, we treat mental health as a secondary consideration.
Reforming Pharmacy Benefit Management
For the hundreds of millions of Americans who live with chronic conditions, affording their medication on an ongoing basis, despite having insurance, is a major barrier to living a healthy and full life.
Focusing on Social Determinants of Health
We will support efforts to illuminate how issues such as basic nutrition and housing can improve individual and community health outcomes and improve health equity.