Coffee with ADA Leaders - Featuring Lisa Murdock, Chief Advocacy Officer

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The ADA’s Coffee Series featured Chief Advocacy Officer Lisa Murdoch discussing the organization’s advocacy priorities and impact. She explained that ADA advocacy works across federal and state levels to improve access to affordable insulin, diabetes technology, health care, prevention programs, healthy food, and protections against discrimination in schools, workplaces, detention settings, and public spaces.<br /><br />Murdoch highlighted major wins, including the first safe-at-school law, state insulin copay caps, the Medicare $35 insulin cap, and expanded access to CGMs and other diabetes technologies. She also stressed ongoing challenges, especially Medicaid cuts under H.R.1, which could cause many people with type 1 diabetes to lose coverage.<br /><br />She urged members, clinicians, and educators to get involved by signing up as advocates, signing petitions, sharing personal stories, contacting lawmakers, attending Call to Congress, and helping connect patients to ADA resources like 1-800-DIABETES. Her key message: advocacy is continuous, and professional voices are essential to securing funding for research, prevention, and insulin affordability.

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ADA advocacy

insulin affordability

diabetes technology

Medicare insulin cap

safe-at-school law

Medicaid cuts

Call to Congress