[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 223 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. CON. RES. 223

   Expressing the sense of the Congress that any legislation that is 
enacted to provide for comprehensive national health care reform should 
    provide for coverage of syringes for individuals who have been 
 diagnosed with diabetes and who require the administration of insulin 
                              by syringe.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 16, 1994

  Ms. Furse submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was 
referred jointly to the Committees on Energy and Commerce and Ways and 
                                 Means

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
   Expressing the sense of the Congress that any legislation that is 
enacted to provide for comprehensive national health care reform should 
    provide for coverage of syringes for individuals who have been 
 diagnosed with diabetes and who require the administration of insulin 
                              by syringe.

Whereas more than 14,000,000 individuals in the United States have diabetes;
Whereas diabetes contributes to more than 160,000 deaths annually in the United 
        States;
Whereas diabetes costs the Nation approximately $92,000,000,000 annually in 
        direct and indirect medical costs;
Whereas diabetes disproportionately affects Hispanic, Native American, African-
        American, and other medically underserved populations;
Whereas approximately 10 percent of individuals with diabetes require the 
        injection of insulin to manage the disease;
Whereas research has proven that frequent administration of insulin prevents 
        certain complications of diabetes, such as blindness, kidney disease, 
        heart disease, stroke, and the need for amputation;
Whereas sterile syringes are necessary to safely administer insulin by 
        injection; and
Whereas most health care benefit plans currently provide coverage for sterile 
        syringes to administer insulin: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That it is the sense of the Congress that any legislation that is 
enacted to provide for comprehensive national health care reform should 
provide for coverage of syringes for individuals in the United States 
who have been diagnosed with diabetes and who require the 
administration of insulin by syringe.

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