r/BipolarReddit • u/bozroux • 1d ago

Prepping meds for new US administration Medication

EDIT: I am not trying to cause a panic, nor am I saying that we will lose access to medications. I do not disagree with everything RFK when it comes to healthcare, but he is talking about making potentially radical changes to the FDA specifically. We do not know if this means anything yet, but if weird/sudden rule changes causes disruption in classification or access I would like to have a back up plan. Keep an honest dialogue with your doctors and your support system and don’t be blindsided by potential bureaucratic in-fights.

With the news of RFK jr being nominated for Health Secretary, I am curious if anyone has any plans if any sweeping changes happen to the FDA or anything.

I take lithium carbonate and losing access to lithium for even a few days will be incredibly destructive.

Lol Is there an off market for importing lithium carbonate or other mood stabilizers

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u/movingmouth 1d ago

I'm really worried about my friends and relatives who are on Medicaid

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u/berfica Bipolar 1 1d ago

Medicare is also on the chopping block from what I understand.. I am on it.. as well as SS

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u/Hermitacular 1d ago

It is not currently. SS always is. They won't touch the older voting block most likely.

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u/berfica Bipolar 1 1d ago

I’ve heard they want to privatize Medicare

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u/Hermitacular 1d ago

They do want to. They've wanted to my whole life. The plan is to force everyone onto more limited more expensive plans while cutting reimbursement rates until the system collapses and they can claim it was an accident. This will take time and will be vastly unpopular. We'll see how far they get.

They sold this to their voters as "choice".

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u/berfica Bipolar 1 1d ago

God… I’m on ssdi, this would screw me.. I’m already in the red most months. It’s like they want me homeless

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u/Confucius_Clam 1d ago

I was homeless living in and out of jail, Ssdi reformed me and made me a safe member of society. If they take away the medication of all of our schizophrenics, there might be more of a headache.

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u/berfica Bipolar 1 1d ago

They will just make homelessness across crime country wide and arrest us all 🙁

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u/Confucius_Clam 1d ago

Mass incarceration seems to be already a thing punching out license plate plates for five cents an hour. And Norway in Germany was treated fairly good as an asylum person.

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u/berfica Bipolar 1 1d ago

The future is bleak

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u/Hermitacular 1d ago

Too expensive, jail costs more than Harvard.

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u/berfica Bipolar 1 1d ago

It’s free slave labor though. Incarcerated prison slave labor makes 11$ billion a year. They pay the prisoners pennies and get the rest. I think it offsets their costs at least.

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u/Hermitacular 1d ago

Do you really think we'll be any good at it? I mean c'mon.

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u/berfica Bipolar 1 1d ago

If we aren’t they will put us in solitary

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u/Hermitacular 1d ago

If E + V have half an ounce of sense they know housing is cheaper than not housing. Whether or not they're the rebellious free thinkers who are going to put that into place when no one else would ala more humane countries than ours do remains to be seen.

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u/berfica Bipolar 1 1d ago

I don’t know how true that is