Tag: Insurance

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Healthcare

Our Congress has passed an incredibly dangerous bill called the American Health Care Act which would lead to the loss of insurance coverage for 24 million Americans at once and 52 million Americans by...

Insurance Company Conduct Negatively Impacts T1D Patient

Beyond being distressed by UHC’s policy and the efforts it took to find it, denying a replacement of an out-of-warranty pump is detrimental to Jessica’s healthcare and wellbeing. As a company, los...

Uncertainty and the ACA

To be diabetic and uninsured for one month, one day, even one minute is walking a dangerous tightrope. My advice to the many diabetics who are navigating the unsteady waters of the ACA for the first t...

The Million of Us

How did these practices of price gouging and profiting off of our daily struggle become principle in this country? How, in an age of such loud voices, did a population of over a million disenfranchise...

Being a Diabetes Medical Supply Hoarder

With the help of my doctor and many people in my life, I hoarded supplies. I did not feel confident that I would be able to have access to the supplies I needed, because I would mysteriously get "...

The Cost of Staying Alive

I do not know whether the over $300 bill I was now again facing as a college student with no stable employment was more astounding, or was it the fact I had also just been essentially told that it was...

Helping Esme — Crash Landings and the Power of Social Media

This family was fighting to keep their daughter safe and then forced to fight for what they were entitled to with a policy they had been paying on for years. Finding a pediatric endocrinologist — th...

A Letter to the CEO of Humana

Beyond Type 1 is asking that Esme's appeal be approved and that Humana revamp their policies for Type 1 clients. We encourage you to use the letter below for inspiration or write your own. While ...