Policy Issues
Visit our policy page to dive in to the issues that impact chronic disease patients.
Learn moreLegislation in the States
People 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.
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Ambassador Spotlight
Claire Sachs
Asthma +9
My chronic journey started in 1983 with a catastrophic acute event -- bacterial meningitis -- which almost killed me and put me in a wheelchair for 18 months. It was also the catalyst that triggered my type 1 diabetes. Since then, despite my own best efforts sometimes, I have survived to develop…
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Caitlyn Brown
Arthritis +1
I have been on my chronic journey for as long as I can remember—first as a daughter who cared for my mother with Rheumatoid Arthritis and now as someone who lives with chronic pain myself. When I was 21, I stepped out of the caregiver role and into my own personal chronic journey story when I was…
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Dianne Stevens
Migraine +5
I’ve had migraine disease since I was a teenager. I had episodic migraine (< 15 headache days/month) attacks, for years. Left untreated, these episodic attacks morphed into chronic migraine (> 15 headache days/month). Like many other disease, migraine is an invisible disease-and if it can’t…
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