{"id":164,"date":"2018-04-06T08:02:17","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T12:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bridge-to-prevention\/?page_id=164"},"modified":"2018-04-10T18:47:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T22:47:00","slug":"congressional-legislation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bridge-to-prevention\/policy-makers-are-working-on\/congressional-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressional legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"333\" height=\"170\" class=\"wp-image-165 aligncenter\" alt=\"legislative update\" src=\"\/bridge-to-prevention\/files\/2018\/04\/legislative-update-636x323.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bridge-to-prevention\/files\/2018\/04\/legislative-update-636x323.jpg 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bridge-to-prevention\/files\/2018\/04\/legislative-update-768x390.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bridge-to-prevention\/files\/2018\/04\/legislative-update-1024x520.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bridge-to-prevention\/files\/2018\/04\/legislative-update.jpg 1687w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/h5>\n<p>National Conference of State Legislators Report: State-by-state list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>insurance coverage for diabetes<\/li>\n<li>federal funding to state-sponsored diabetes prevention and control programs,<\/li>\n<li>state-wide diabetes coordinator positions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>GEDI Act, introduced 2015, died in committee<\/p>\n<p>Would have provided funding for developing and testing novel approaches for improving postpartum testing or screening and for preventing type 2 diabetes in women with GDM<\/p>\n<p>Congressional Diabetes Caucus (350 members): Current Bills<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Eliminating Disparities in Diabetes Prevention, Access, and Care Act (H.R. 2651) <\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Preventing <\/i><i>Diabetes in Medicare Act (H.R. 1686) <\/i><i>for <\/i>pre-diabetes<\/li>\n<li><i>Access <\/i><i>to Quality Diabetes Education Act (H.R. 1726) <\/i>recognizing educators as providers<\/li>\n<li><i>Medicare <\/i><i>Diabetes Prevention Act (H.R. 2102<\/i><i>)<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>National <\/i><i>Diabetes Clinical Care Commission Act <\/i>(H.R. 1192) for pre-diabetes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[ function goBack() { window.history.back() } \/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<button onclick=\"goBack()\">Go Back<\/button><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Conference of State Legislators Report: State-by-state list: insurance coverage for diabetes federal funding to state-sponsored diabetes prevention and control programs, state-wide diabetes coordinator positions GEDI Act, introduced 2015, died in committee Would have provided funding for developing and testing novel approaches for improving postpartum testing or screening and for preventing type 2 diabetes in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14643,"featured_media":0,"parent":153,"menu_order":18,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bridge-to-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bridge-to-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bridge-to-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bridge-to-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bridge-to-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bridge-to-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bridge-to-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/164\/revisions\/293"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bridge-to-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bridge-to-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}