07/04/2025
📣📣 One Beautiful Big Bill Act📣📣
✅ What does it mean for mental health services and addiction services?
🛑It means that millions of people receiving mental health services & substance abuse services through Medicaid & Medicare would ultimately not have access to those services. With people on Medicaid taking the biggest cuts to services.
✅ What can I do?
🎗️You can continue to support organizations like NAMI as they continue to advocate for individuals with mental health needs.
✍🏽You can call, write or email your Senator, Representative and Congressman
💰 You can continue to donate to organizations that help to fill in gaps of coverage expenses for people with little to no income.
✅ What can I do as a Mental Health Professional?
💡You can begin developing a plan that can help fill in the gaps such as offering sliding scale or free services to individuals.
📚You can educate your patients on how the passing of this bill will affect their coverage and develop a care plan that’s right for them.
💚 You can stop public panic and distress by providing hope and support to the community.
🤝You can collaborate with other professionals to provide more cost efficient services collectively. What your patients need the other provider may be able to offer and vice versus.
🙏🏾Together we can fill in the gaps, bring awareness and provide the quality care people need. It may look slightly different but it’s not impossible!!! 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽
