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Seniors are one of the groups most helped by a pharmacare bill. The other group? Regular poor people.
The group most likely to let their bipolar meds lapse? Poors. Schizo meds that make life bearable and jobs attainable? Poors won't make enough to pay the costs unless the pharmacare bill pushes the prices down.
You know the difference between a poor guy with a medically-dependent mental attribute and that guy shouting at cars in the street? Regular meds so he doesn't lose what he has over and over and over. And luck, but also uninterrupted meds.
We don't need pharmacare so I can get my ADHD or blood pressure pills; we need equal pharma access in our constitution so good and resilient people dont fall into a crack, lose their world and end up raging in the street at the frustration of daily existence in the rainy nights.
To be fair, there are more factors in medication relapse for things like schizophrenia, bipolar, etc, than for even ADHD meds or blood pressure pills. Apparently the side effects can be awful even when they’re working.
Life happens fast. You can be 31 and relatively healthy, then 33 and staring down $1000/month meds with the promise of rapid degeneration if you don’t take them, oh and please book a day off work to make all the phone calls and deal with the paperwork to even apply for pharmacare, because your work plan refuses to touch that amount if you haven’t applied for Fair Pharmacare first….