"Health Care Advocacy Blueprint for the First 100 Days…"
Connecting ALS
English - January 28, 2021 16:00 - 14 minutes - 27.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsHealth & Fitness Society & Culture als lou gehrig health research advocacy awareness connecting Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This week, Mike and Jeremy are joined by Katie Berge, director of federal affairs at The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and a member of the Partnership to Protect Coverage, a group of 33 patient advocacy organizations including The ALS Association. Katie walks us through the first 100 days of the Biden administration and lays out the health care fights ahead.
For more information about the partnership and its 100 days agenda, go to https://www.lls.org/news/33-organizations-representing-millions-of-patients-urge-policymakers-to-adopt-patient-first-policy-agenda?news=News%20Releases&newsid=12355
Learn more about The ALS Association’s call for a boost in federal funding of ALS research here https://www.als.org/blog/boost-funding-needed-als-research-year
Stay up to date with The ALS Association’s advocacy priorities at https://www.als.org/advocacy/our-priorities
Sign up to become an advocate at https://als.quorum.us/register/
This episode was produced by Garrett Tiedemann and is brought to you by The ALS Association’s national office and the Association’s Minnesota/North Dakota/South Dakota Chapter.