Former Saints safety Steve Gleason has been living with ALS since 2011 and his life has been made fuller by the availability of technology that helps him communicate despite the disease taking away his ability to speak.
When changes were made to Medicare last year, those devices were no longer covered and Gleason began work to rally support in Congress to make sure that speech generating devices would be available to all who need them. That led to the Steve Gleason Act, which the House of Representatives passed on Wednesday. The bill had already passed in the Senate and now moves to President Obama, who can sign it into law.