American consumers to U.S. government: Let charities be charitable
10.26.16 More than 85 percent of 829 people commenting on a recent government request for... Continue reading »
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Taking a stand for women with breast cancer and all patients with chronic diseases
10.24.16 In 2010, a large health insurance company created a special algorithm to search its... Continue reading »
Pilot with diabetes fights for fairness in the skies
10.20.16 Pilot Eric Friedman is fighting discrimination by the Federal Aviation Administration, standing up for... Continue reading »
Julianne Malveaux calls on government leaders to provide insurance justice for kidney patients
10.11.16 A relatively new way that health insurance companies are discriminating against the chronically ill... Continue reading »
Study suggests financial assistance makes difference in whether Medicare patients can afford lifesaving leukemia drug
10.10.16 A study in the Journal of Clinical Oncology has found that older cancer patients... Continue reading »
Rare genetic disorder takes life of youngest daughter of late Dave Frohnmayer
10.5.16 As the father of two young women and a longtime admirer of former University... Continue reading »
'Do no harm' to patients who need charitable assistance to afford their health care
10.4.16 The voices against insurances companies’ efforts to deny kidney patients access to charitable assistance... Continue reading »
Congressman to Obama: Kicking the sickest patients off health-care exchanges is not the answer
10.3.16 Ronnie Shows, who represented Mississippi’s 4th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives... Continue reading »
Patients celebrate FDA approval of first-of-its-kind automated insulin delivery device for type 1 diabetes
9.29.16 The Chronic Disease Coalition spends most of its time advocating for patient rights and... Continue reading »