
Policy Issues
Visit our policy page to dive in to the issues that impact chronic disease patients.
Learn morePeople managing chronic disease are affected every day by state-level policy, and that is where the majority our focus is. The Chronic Disease Coalition is actively tracking priority legislation in every state, and you can see which states have active legislation on our top issues. (Read about our policy priorities here).
Want to know more about what’s happening in your state and across the nation? Join the fight here and you’ll get the information you need, when you need it.
You can also go straight to our Contact Your Elected Leaders page for an easy way to reach out to your elected officials about key issues.
Visit our policy page to dive in to the issues that impact chronic disease patients.
Learn moreI have Mosaic Turner Syndrome. This means is that I have a partial loss of a second X chromosome. In a staggering statistic, 2% of all pregnancies with Turner Syndrome survive. For those of us living with Turner Syndrome, this causes multiple chronic illnesses. I have endometriosis, early onset…
View ProfileI became disabled by my chronic illnesses right before I turned 20. I was a sophomore in college, and it was so difficult trying to balance everything while not having any idea why I was in so much pain and so fatigued. I knew something was wrong, but I kept being told that it was stress, or my…
View ProfileI was diagnosed with Epilepsy at 18. Though I accepted my doctor’s diagnosis, I was in denial that anything was truley wrong. I rarely saw my neurologist and never told anyone I had Epilepsy. As years passed my Epilepsy worsened and I had to come out of the Epilepsy “closet”. It had become both…
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