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Treating patients at Regional Cancer Care Associates, LLC, in New Jersey, Kenneth D. Nahum, DO, once received Kimball Medical Center’s Humanitarian Physician of the Year Award. A longtime supporter of health-focused nonprofits, Dr. Kenneth D. Nahum helped raise money for JDRF (formerly the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation) of Monmouth County.
Since diabetes can be fatal without insulin, keeping the cost of insulin affordable is a matter of life and death for the 1.25 million people living with type 1 diabetes (T1D) and the millions of others with type 2 diabetes. In light of skyrocketing prices that are making insulin unaffordable for some diabetics, JDRF has launched a new advocacy campaign called #Coverage2Control.
The campaign encourages juvenile diabetes patients and supporters to contact lawmakers and ask them to support policies that lower out-of-pocket insulin costs and help control costs over the long term. Some specific solutions JDRF advocates for are directing pharmaceutical rebates to beneficiaries to lower purchase prices, elevating insulin and diabetes management tools to tier 1 or tier 2 benefit levels, and assessing fixed dollar “co-payments” for insulin rather than a fluctuating “co-insurance” percentage.
Kenneth D. Nahum 
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