Coronavirus Forces Health Groups to Pivot on Pitch to Lawmakers

For advocate Grace Kranstover, April is supposed to be appropriations season; a time to meet with lawmakers and their staffs to make the case for funding federal health programs for people with diabetes.

The government and public affairs manager for the Endocrine Society had been planning to send her group’s members to Capitol Hill next week to talk about extending the federal Special Diabetes Program and ways to cut insulin prices. Now, the coronavirus pandemic makes in-person meetings inadvisable and Congress is turning its attention largely to the next rescue package. Advocacy groups such as the Endocrine Society are reshaping ...