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6:24 PM. OPINION Opinion | The Supreme Court hurt Alabama’s dialysis community, and Congress must step in

Rickey Stokes

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Posted by: RStokes
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Date: Sep 19 2024 6:27 PM

ALABAMA:      


From the Appalachian Mountains to our Gulf Coast beaches, Alabama is filled with outdoor adventure and scenic wonder. Our cultural heritage is celebrated through music, art, and food, with deep ties to jazz, blues, and Southern cuisine. With strong educational institutions and a growing economy, Alabama is a place where tradition meets progress, making it a wonderful place to live and visit. With all of our good, we do face some unique challenges. 


From the 1950s to 2016, our state’s health was on the rise, but since then, we’ve been struggling. The mortality rate in Alabama shot up in 2020 and remains high today, largely driven by the rise of chronic illness in our state. Despite the current public health trends, if we work together, we can put Alabama on the right path. 


We can do so by addressing one of the leading causes of death in Alabama: kidney failure, medically known as End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD). Alabama’s kidney failure rates are rising, and many new Alabamians remain financially ill-equipped to confront this or any serious medical condition. To add insult to injury, a recent Supreme Court ruling imposed significant financial challenges for kidney patients, and we need Congress to step in to prevent current trends from becoming even worse. 


Over 10,000 Alabamians receive dialysis, the physically taxing treatment typically done three times per week that filters patients’ blood in place of the kidneys. Yet it’s become even more difficult for many working Alabamians to access and pay for dialysis care due to a Supreme Court decision that allowed employer-provided insurance plans to discriminate against new dialysis patients by denying basic coverage for dialysis. In response, Alabama’s members of Congress must help pass the Restore Protections for Dialysis Patients Act (H.R. 6860), which would restore legal protections to these vulnerable patients.


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