Being the parent of a child with difficult health is incredibly tough. And those parents deserve all the help in the world. Which is why it’s so terrible to hear what happened to Nicole Nichols, a mother of an eight year old with diabetes. She contacted her state government, asking for help.

“I am the mother of a child with type 1 diabetes and an advocate who works with The Diabetes Foundation of MS. We have recently begun having a lot of problems with Medicaid/CHIPS coverage of the essential diabetes supplies needed, not only to keep our kids healthy, but to literally keep them alive.

Many parents, myself included, have found that while supplies are deemed necessary and technically covered by insurance, we cannot get Medicaid and/or CHIPS to pay for them, and suppliers aren’t able to help us.

Is there someone in the legislature that can and will help these children stay healthy? They must have these medications and supplies which administer the medications in order to remain healthy, and quite honestly, alive!”

The response from her state representative? Jeffrey Guice?

“I am sorry for your problem. Have you thought about buying the supplies with money that you earn?”

That’s infuriating. Just endlessly, endlessly infuriating.

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