Gail deVore was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes, a life-threatening chronic illness, as a child. Her experience with insurance and costs of medications led her to work as a citizen advocate from an early age. As part of her work, she has worked hard to be an effective advocate on behalf of all patients. Gail is a founding Board Member of the Nightscout Foundation and sits on the board of directors for several other non-profit organizations. She is an active member of Patients For Affordable Drugs and for the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative, serving on the Policy Committee. She is currently heading an effort to enlist and train more patients across Colorado to become effective advocates. In her spare time, she owns 2Degrees, LLC a specialty IT consulting company and she is the fiddle player for an internationally recognized bluegrass band, Rocky Mountain Jewgrass.
I was stuck for many years pushing paperwork in a miserable job that I hated. Why did I stay? Because I needed insurance to afford diabetes test strips,…