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1. New Academy for Certified Diabetes Educators Butts Up Against AADE Ever wonder how the D-educators get educated themselves? We often do. Now we've learned that there's a new non-profit organization on the block aimed specifically at serving those diabetes educators who already have the "certified" tag behind the... ...
2. Helping Diabetic Teens Become Film-Makers Diabetes at school is tough to manage, no doubt. From changing school nurse policies, fighting for compliance with 504 plans, to educating teachers on D-devices and D-needs to preventing other kids from embarrassing or even bullying kids and teens... ...
3. The Post-Launch Problem: The Affordable Care Act’s Persistently High Administrative Costs Last year we, and many others, drew attention to the chaotic and costly roll out of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) exchanges. The chaos is mostly over (unless King prevails over Burwell), but the costs will linger on. The roughly $6 billion in exchange start-up costs pale in comparison to the ongoing insurance overhead that the ACA has added to our health care system — more than a quarter of a trillion dollars through 2022. Bloated Administrative Costs We calculated these new overhead costs from the official National Health Expenditure Projections for 2012-2022 released by the Centers for Medicare and...
4. The wisdom of living 52 years with type 1 diabetes in a nutshell: Each day is a new day. In two days, February 22, I’ll be “celebrating,” well acknowledging, 52 years with type 1 […] ...
5. Narrative Matters: On Our Reading List Editor’s Note: “Narrative Matters: On Our Reading List” is a monthly roundup where we share some of the most compelling health care narratives driving the news and conversation in recent weeks. The One In 40,000 Parents think their children are one in a million, but Liz Savage knows what it means to have your child be the statistical anomaly. One in 40,000 measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR)-vaccinated patients will be affected with immune thrombocytopenia purpura. Her son, whom she refers to as “Oscar” in her story for Slate, “My Son, the Statistic,” was hospitalized with low platelet counts, as his...