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Take Action Today For the One Million Ostomates As Supply Management In Jeopardy 7-25-25 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: All right, we'll get to more content here on the
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  Speaker 1: One Leg Up network, but I gotta say at One
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  Speaker 1: Leg Up Alex, something very personal has hit home, and
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  Speaker 1: it's amazing. This comes as Ada thirty five. It's hitting
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow because it just shows American's Disabilities Act is only
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  Speaker 1: going so far. When you read that those with ostomy
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  Speaker 1: supplies are in jeopardy of effectively managing their ostomy and
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  Speaker 1: supply management. See when the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
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  Speaker 1: Services proposes this dangerous change, as written by Jene Gliba
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  Speaker 1: of the UOAA, they want to redefine osteme and urological
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  Speaker 1: supplies as medical equipment items to include them in competitive bidding,
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  Speaker 1: which is a system where supplier's bid to offer the
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  Speaker 1: lowest prices for Medicare contracts, meaning limited choices for you
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  Speaker 1: or your patients. And as I said in Washington, DC
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  Speaker 1: to those in office and those staffers in the offices
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  Speaker 1: of Senator Schumer and Senator Booker and Congressman Van Drew,
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  Speaker 1: if you force people to change where they get their supplies,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna throw off their regimen. They're gonna throw off
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  Speaker 1: their routine. It's also going to help them to help
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  Speaker 1: their it's also not gonna help their chances to always adapt.
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  Speaker 1: It'll hurt their chances actually, And when I got this alert,
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  Speaker 1: it affected me too, because of course we love edge
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  Speaker 1: Park and we want to keep that partnership with edge
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  Speaker 1: Park supplies and we don't want to lose that ability
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  Speaker 1: to just get your ass to me and my ass
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  Speaker 1: to me freely. So if you want to take action,
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  Speaker 1: just share my access matters as a hashtag on your
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  Speaker 1: social media and be sure to follow the UOAA underscore
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  Speaker 1: on Instagram for further updates. Again, this breaking news story
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  Speaker 1: is as follows UOAA saying that right now, ostomy supplies
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  Speaker 1: are in danger of being exclusive. If you will, it
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  Speaker 1: means you may not get the supplies you need or
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  Speaker 1: quite frankly or comfortable with. And we want comfort, we
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  Speaker 1: want care. We don't want to be having to scramble
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  Speaker 1: should CMS Gov go through with this, So take action
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  Speaker 1: at astome dot org, backslash, take dash action, or just
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  Speaker 1: click the link in the bio, and I'm gonna share
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  Speaker 1: this in my story as well. This is why advocacy
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  Speaker 1: never ends. Always, adapting never ends, because there's always roadblocks,
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  Speaker 1: there's always challenges, and I hope those listening and have
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  Speaker 1: a loved one with an ostomy can take this into
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  Speaker 1: consideration and do something to support those friends and family
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  Speaker 1: and even strangers in a time where it looks like
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  Speaker 1: it looks like there's real jeopardy to effectively managing our ostomies.
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  Speaker 1: That's it for now, but to have one leg up,
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  Speaker 1: we have to take action. We have to say my
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  Speaker 1: access matters today.