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Medicaid Cuts and Attempts to Eliminate Insurance Coverage for Diabetes Needs Threaten the Lives of Our Patients

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The patients we care for face substantial threats to their lives every day. But the threat that I write about today is not the kind presented by diabetes or its associated complications. Today, one of the greatest risks to doctors and our patients with diabetes is the threat related to the potential loss of guaranteed health insurance coverage of diabetes supplies and services.

Because of severe budgetary constraints, many state-run Medicaid programs are attempting to eliminate coverage of diabetes supplies, equipment, and services. This could be a disaster for the poor, near poor, disabled, and poor children who depend on Medicaid for health care coverage.

For example, as of March 1, 2003, the Oregon Health Plan, which is part of Oregon’s Medicaid program, will eliminate coverage of diabetes supplies, including blood glucose monitoring needs for at least 6,000 people with diabetes. California is considering the elimination of coverage for diabetes supplies for the entire Medicaid population. Massachusetts will completely eliminate Medicaid coverage for about 3,500 people with diabetes by removing them from . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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