The pandemic has forced diabetics to cope with an even heavier burden of financial, physical and mental health needs.
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Lawmakers will debate two health care bills today. Here’s what they would do.
On the agenda for the special session are bills tackling the cost of diabetes drugs and boosting access to telemedicine.
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Best of 2019: Diabetics taking desperate measures as cost of insulin skyrockets
A precipitous rise in the price of insulin is forcing many Americans to ration the drug or go without.
Posted inHealth
Diabetics taking desperate measures as cost of insulin skyrockets
A precipitous rise in the price of insulin is forcing many Americans to ration the drug or go without.
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Doc, now Rep. Petit, on health care, victims’ rights and small business
William Petit is one of 35 newly elected members of the Connecticut General Assembly, but he’s probably the only one whose November election made national news. He spoke with The Mirror about his new job as a legislator, changes in how doctors practice, diabetes, the federal health law, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s Second Chance Society criminal justice reform initiatives, victims’ rights, and the assumptions people have about him.