WATCH: GHLF President, Seth Ginsberg Asks For Your Help: Join the Patient Advocacy Institute If you have ever been denied coverage or have been forced to jump through hoops to receive treatment for a chronic disease, consider sharing your story with us so that we can help others. GHLF's Patient Advocacy Institute is vehicle for people who want to use their experiences to educate the public about the need to protect coverage and improve access to care. Let your voice be heard, and share your story with us. Watch the video below. (0:50)
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WATCH: GHLF Co-Founder at Bio Convention in D.C. Global Healthy Living Foundation co-founder Seth Ginsberg attended the 2011 Bio International Convention in Washington, D.C., an event bringing together researchers, physicians, and patient advocates to discuss and learn about new advances in healthcare practices and medications. Watch his interview with Newschannel8 below. (7:00)
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WATCH: GHLF Co-Founder Appeals to NY Governor Seth Ginsberg explains what we must do to save Medicaid and Prescription Medication Coverage in New York State. Watch his interview with NBC4 below. (4:00)
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GHLF Launches "Fail First Hurts" Website to Combat Step Therapy Insurance companies often deny covering medication -- medication that you and your doctor have chosen -- because they require you to "fail first" using a different, cheaper drug. But not all drugs are the same. And who gave an insurance bean counter the medical license needed to override your physician's prescription? "Failing First" using another medication -- also known as "Step Therapy" -- is wrong. And we're here to advocate for you. To visit FailFirstHurts.org and join the fight, click here. To view the results of our National Patient Survey on FailFirstHurts.org, click here.
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	Welcome to the Global Healthy Living Foundation, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization working to improve the quality of life for people with chronic diseases such as arthritis, hypertension, high cholesterol, diabetes, sickle cell disease, depression, psoriasis, cancer and COPD/asthma. We focus on patients and caregivers, healthcare professionals and innovative patient advocacy.
Our in-person patient events, educational videos, and Web site environments are always culturally and ethnically sensitive, including in-language programs for Hispanic, East Asian and Russian participants, as well as ethnically and culturally harmonious faculty for African-American, Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender (GLBT), and selected religious communities.
	Our faculty consists of physicians, psychologists, exercise experts, nutritionists, sports coaches, and moderators who often have the chronic disease that is the focus of the event. We are able to combine chronic illnesses into men's health, women's health, and other broad categories, allowing participants to learn about more than one condition. Read more

Online Communities

Visit CreakyJoints.org, a popular social networking community (with over 42,000 registered members and counting), brought to you by the GHLF. Check out arthritis news, educational videos, podcasts, events, The Creaky Board support forums, and much more.

 

GHLF is proud to introduce two new social networking sites: CreakyBones.org for osteoporosis, and RedPatch.org for psoriasis.

 

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