Some Good Comes of the NYT Series on Diabetes
The series has sparked a 6 Million dollar donation from the Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman New York Foundation for Medical Research to the Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan. This funding will allow the Center to provide services deemed unnecessary by most insurers. Yes, services like prevention, education, support and reinforcement. Not those essential services like dialysis that insurers would rather gamble on us not being around long enough to need. (I think I need to find an HTML tag for sarcasm.) Read more about this donation here.
Now, before you rush to defend the poor maligned NYT series, I do actually think that a lot of good came of it. Awareness, motivation, publicity - all of these can be a double-edged sword, but I agree that they are so necessary in the battle against the effects of high blood sugar.
However, I am still trying to figure out how we the people can be sliding into a collective diabetic coma, yet still stand by and watch something like s1955 make it out of committee.
posted by Kassie @ 12:16 AM
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I can't wait to see what it all turns out to produce in the end, if the article prompts major hospitals to revise their approach, that would be good. As the article states, "Still, a fundamental shift in how insurers reimburse medical providers is necessary before centers can function without large amounts of charity." This is why your note about s1955 is so important. I hope the center has an advocacy or outreach arm as well.
MA's version just passed. Scary times.
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