Jennifer C. Jaff, an attorney with 30 years of legal experience and a patient with a chronic illness, is the nation's leading expert on the law as it affects patients with chronic health problems - which comprise 50% of all Americans. How do you prove that you are "totally and permanently disabled" when you have an illness that can go into remission? That is the core legal issue facing patients with chronic illness. Jennifer is the lone voice advocating that, to ensure that the chronically ill are protected, we must redefine the notion of disability to include invisible chronic illnesses.
Jennifer is available to Media on issues relating to health care policy issues (such as universal health care) as they relate to patients with chronic illness. She easily can explain health and disability insurance, Social Security disability, employment discrimination, educational equity - just about any issue as it relates to the chronically ill.
Media should CONTACT Jennifer Jaff at (860) 674-1370 or (860) 305-9835, or by email at patient_advocate@sbcglobal.net. If you prefer, you may contact Jamie Diaferia at Infinite Public Relations, at (212) 687-0935, or by email at jdiaferia@infinitepr.com.
Links to published articles are below.
Jennifer was interviewed for Talking 'Bout Guts here. It starts at about 8:20 minutes into the podcast.
Jennifer was interviewed by Richard Cohen for WebMD. The transcript is here.
On May 15, 2010, Pearl Jam played the XL Center in Hartford, Connecticut. Before the song The Fixer, Mike McCready brought Advocacy for Patients' Jennifer Jaff onstage and said the following:
Hey guys. I'd like to dedicate this next song to this woman Jennifer Jaff right over there who runs a cool thing called Advocacy for Patients and she gets insurance for kids who can't get it and she helps any kind of people who have any chronic illnesses, and she kicks ass. Jennifer Jaff's her name and my wife and I support her. Advocacy for Patients. She's one of your own. Use her if you need to. She's fantastic. Thank you.
Don't believe it? Watch the video here or here.
Advocacy for Patients was quoted as an expert in negotiating doctor bills in an article in the New York Times - appeared April 30, 2010.*
The article can be found here
Advocacy for Patients was quoted as an expert in insurance appeals in an article in the New York Times - appeared February 6, 2010.*
The article can be found here
Jennifer Jaff was profiled in the March edition of Connecticut Magazine.
Pearl Jam's US tour is supporting Advocacy for Patients and its partner, Lybba. Lybba is the result of Jesse Dylan's visionary pairing of health information and social networking. Look for more information about the alliance between Advocacy for Patients and Lybba coming soon.
Jennifer talks to AARP Magazine about health insurance disputes.
Jennifer published an op-ed piece in the Hartford Courant in support of health care reform.
The Faith Middleton Show - Jennifer Jaff talks about her new book, It's Too Hard to be Sick in America, with Faith Middleton, a Peabody Award winning Connecticut-based public radio host. Click to listen.
Advocacy for Patients was quoted as an expert in how self-employed individuals can get health insurance in the New York Times - appeared March 27, 2008.*
The article can be found here
Jennifer Jaff, Know Your Rights: Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Employment.
Jennifer was featured in the Spring/Summer 2008 Edition of the Georgetown University Law Center Alumni Magazine. Read her profile here.
Advocacy On-Air! - read the transcript of Jennifer's comprehensive interview on health insurance.
PEARL JAM - Donates a portion of concert proceeds to Advocacy For Patients With Chronic Illness, Org. Exclusive pictures from the concert have been added to this link!
Crusade Against Chronic Illness - an article by Diane Levick, from the Hartford Courant.
USA Today - writer Sandra Block contributes "Don't take it lying down if your insurer refuses to pay."
Jaff Named 2005 MS Corporate Achiever - The National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Greater Connecticut Chapter, names Advocacy for Patients with Chronic Illnesses, Inc a 2005 Corporate Achiever - one of only 20 leaders within the Hartford region to be named.
Sin Barreras Courant - A boost for the chronically ill - group offers help to Spanish-only speakers.
*In each of these articles, Advocacy for Patients' Executive Director Jennifer C. Jaff was quoted widely as an expert and provided the authors -- Marci Alboher and Walecia Konrad -- with extensive information, as well as contact information for patients who were interviewed for the articles.
We apologize that we are unable to post full reprints of these articles. However, despite the fact that the bulk of the information in the articles came from Advocacy for Patients, the New York Times wants thousands of dollars for permission to post copies of these articles, and we feel that our funds are better spent providing services to you rather than touting our own success in the New York Times.