Insulin Nation

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

The odds that Associate U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is the first person with diabetes to be seated on the highest court are pretty long. However, Justice Sotomayor is the first to reveal her diabetes diagnosis in a very public way. She let it be known that she has Type 1 in her 2013 memoir, My Beloved World. Her memoir opens with an account of her frightening emergency trip from Sunday church to the hospital; she was diagnosed with diabetes at age 7.

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ACA Times

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

The Internal Revenue Service said it will propose a number of changes in the regulations on reports related to the Affordable Care Act. All of the proposed changes will have the effect of easing reporting obligations of employers and insurance companies. The agency issued Notice 2015-68 , which details the proposed regulations under § 6055 of the Internal Revenue Code.

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Insulin Nation

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Advocates calling for earlier Type 1 detection have formed a new group to raise awareness about the dangers of a missed Type 1 diagnosis. The group, UPrising Against DKA (“United Parents Rising Against Diabetic Ketoacidosis,”) has built a membership of more than 1,800 since its creation in July. Page administrator Cindy Turner, who helped form the advocacy group TestOneDrop , urges others to “unite against the lack of education and complacency that allows unnecessary life-threatening illnesses,

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Insulin Nation

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

We’ve come up with a fresh batch of Type 1 diabetes memes, straight out of the ovens of our fevered imaginations. Feel free to pass them around like Groupon offers for Starbucks: Do you have a Type 1 meme you’d like to share? Email it to our editor at cidlebrook@epscomm.com. The post 5 Diabetes Memes You Need to See appeared first on Insulin Nation.

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Insulin Nation

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

When it comes to advice on improving one’s A1C score, there are some familiar suggestions that we often hear: · Check blood glucose more often. · Exercise regularly. · Eat healthy fats and protein and minimize carbs. And, so on. What do these suggestions all have in common? They are all physical solutions. Here’s the problem: while these tips may be sound advice, physical is only part of the story.

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Insulin Nation

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Frozen…Insulin. Diagnosed with diabetes at a young age, Princess Elsa of Arendelle was taught by her crass father, the king, to keep her hands covered with gloves so nobody would see the small scars from repeated blood glucose tests. Elsa also can make snow come out of her fingertips, but no one really cares about that. Hearing rumor across the land of a possible cure for diabetes, the king and queen set sail.

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Insulin Nation

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Sanofi and Google have announced a business partnership to create a device that will gather information to help people with Type 1 diabetes and Type 2 diabetes better manage their blood sugar levels. The partnership will combine Paris-based Sanofi’s knowledge in diabetes care and devices with the analytics, compact electronics, and chip design know-how of Google’s evolving life science division.

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Insulin Nation

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

A fun Vine video has been making the rounds for the last couple of years. It’s short and hypnotic. In it, an older woman with diabetes cheerfully describes the high-carb meal she is going to have: You can just watch it over and over again. (Thanks to Travis Manni for finding this for us.). And it raises so many questions. Who is this woman? Does she have Type 1 or Type 2?

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ACA Times

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

The Affordable Care Act, Medicaid expansion and the wave of mergers they have triggered have made the nonprofit healthcare sector financially stronger, according to the Standard & Poor’s ratings agency. S&P changed its evaluation of the sector from “negative” to “stable,” saying that it expects the outlook for providers to be positive at least through 2016.

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ACA Times

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

The IRS sent letters this summer to some taxpayers who were issued a Form 1095-A, Health Insurance Marketplace Statement, showing that advance payments of the premium tax credit were paid on the taxpayer’s behalf in 2014. They IRS sent the letters because at the time they were mailed the agency had no record that the taxpayer had filed a 2014 tax return.

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ACA Times

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

A study by researchers at Harvard Medical School says an Act intended to make hospitals more efficient is unintentionally punishing hospitals that serve the sickest, poorest and least-educated patients. Under the ACA, hospitals face financial penalties if they have higher-than-expected rates of readmitting patients within 30 days of treating them. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association , says high readmission rates often result from serving patients who are poore

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