Comments on: Senate Starting To Address Health Care Reform http://www.healthinsurancecolorado.net/blog1/2008/05/09/senate-starting-to-address-health-care-reform/ Research and discussion of the Colorado health insurance industry and the healthcare crisis in America. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:14:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Amy Epstein http://www.healthinsurancecolorado.net/blog1/2008/05/09/senate-starting-to-address-health-care-reform/comment-page-1/#comment-10417 Amy Epstein Thu, 15 May 2008 20:07:46 +0000 http://www.healthinsurancecolorado.net/blog1/?p=388#comment-10417 Please see this current "Soapbox" alert on www.congress.org for a way to save Medicare $2 billion a year. It is simply to fund NIH/NIDDK research for Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) more generously than the current level of $53/patient: http://www.congress.org/congressorg/issues/alert/?alertid=11372366&content_dir=ua_congressorg A cure for PKD is attainable "in our lifetime", according to scientists at NIDDK, yet funding levels are flat. A little pill to slow down cyst growth on the kidneys could save hundreds of thousands of PKD patients from needing costly dialysis or kidney transplant surgery. The return on investment would be staggering savings to Medicare. Also affected positively would be the number of PKD patients who could work again and lead productive lives instead of spending 15 hours a week (during business hours) tethered to dialysis machines. Many dialysis patients are also on public assistance because of the demands of the dialysis schedule. Additional funding for PKD research at NIH/NIDDK could result in a cure which could be life-saving, job-saving and Medicare-saving. Please see this current “Soapbox” alert on http://www.congress.org for a way to save Medicare $2 billion a year. It is simply to fund NIH/NIDDK research for Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) more generously than the current level of $53/patient:

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/issues/alert/?alertid=11372366&content_dir=ua_congressorg

A cure for PKD is attainable “in our lifetime”, according to scientists at NIDDK, yet funding levels are flat. A little pill to slow down cyst growth on the kidneys could save hundreds of thousands of PKD patients from needing costly dialysis or kidney transplant surgery. The return on investment
would be staggering savings to Medicare.

Also affected positively would be the number of PKD patients who could work again and lead productive lives instead of spending 15 hours a week (during business hours) tethered to dialysis machines. Many dialysis patients are also on public assistance because of the demands of the dialysis schedule.

Additional funding for PKD research at NIH/NIDDK could result in a cure which could be life-saving, job-saving and Medicare-saving.

]]>