Does the American Diabetes Association work for patients or companies? A lawsuit dared to ask | Neil Barsky
Does the American Diabetes Association work for patients or companies? A lawsuit dared to ask | Neil Barsky
The ADA just settled an explosive legal case accusing the organization of betraying people with diabetes
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Elizabeth Hanna, the ex-ADA chief nutritionist who alleged that her former employer fired her over her refusal to endorse Splenda-filled salads, has quietly settled her case.
For Hanna, accepting a settlement from the ADA was no doubt a simpler and less stressful and risky alternative to a trial, but for me and the country’s other 38 million people with diabetes, it is a letdown.
Instead, they promote a laundry list of corporate deals and pharmaceutical treatments that have failed to stem the disease’s lethal and expensive impact on American life.
Hanna’s complaint, filed last year in a New Jersey court, alleged a litany of wrongdoings by one of the country’s most powerful patient advocacy organizations.
“Hanna’s story could be the next movie that Americans need to see to understand what is going on behind closed doors between major for-profit corporations and the not-for-profit health sector,” they wrote in their legal complaint.
Her legal complaint is a public document open for the ADA’s board of directors, clinicians across the US and the world, and members of Congress to read.
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