ALL People With Diabetes Should Write to Their Senators About Signing the Casey-Burr Letter Today!

Today, I got an email from JDRF about asking me to contact my Senators to sign onto the so-called Casey-Burr letter to maintain a strong commitment to medical research funding at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).  Senators Bob Casey (D-PA) and Richard Burr (R-NC), who, incidentally, happen to be working on a nice, bi-partisan initiative (something we don't see very much of these days in U.S. Congress) asking fellow Senators to sign their letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee supporting funding for NIH in fiscal year (FY) 2013.  The letter requests that the Senate Appropriations Committee maintain a strong commitment to biomedical research and NIH in the FY 2013 Labor-Health and Human Service-Education Appropriations bill.  There's a risk funding which keeps researchers working on treatments and cures could be shut down entirely for a period of time due to the budget sequester if something isn't not done.This impacts ALL people with diabetes (not type specific)JDRF did not have a pre-written letter for this one but there was a LOT of room for personal comments in the form.  However, as I thought about it, I realized (thanks to Bob Pedersen's [@rpederse] very eloquent post, that this is not a type 1, type 2 or gestational diabetes issue, it's a DIABETES issue, and by that, it means it affects any person with diabetes.  True, JDRF has a reasonably well-organized government relations system (although the organization sucks at...
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