Greetings JDRF advocates!
We hope all is well and you are finally able to enjoy some well deserved down time over the holidays. Please remember that the congressional recess starts today, December 21st and will run through January 14th.
This week, Congress extended the Special Diabetes Program (SDP) for one year at 150 million dollars. While we were seeking a multi-year renewal and an increase in funding to $200 million each year for the SDP, given today’s budget climate and all the politics surrounding this bill it’s a massive success that we remained in the larger Medicare package at all. Plus, this allows us the opportunity to come back next year and continue to try for our multiyear renewal. Without your 188 completed Promise meetings, continual participation in action alerts and overall dedication to this cause the renewal may never have happened.
Since the bill passed unanimously in the Senate and overwhelmingly in the House we do have a shift in messaging for scheduling Promise meetings. When speaking to schedulers we ask that you request a meeting to thank your representative for their support of the SDP. Please click
here
to see how your House member voted or email Jonathan Stewart at
jstewart@jdrf.org
should you have any questions before making your meeting request.
Thanks again for everything you do and we wish you and your family a very happy holiday season!
Tom and Lorraine