#medicaid

- GoodRx

- SingleCare

- Pharmacy Checker

- WellRx - this one compares prices across different pharmacies

- Cost Plus - thanks to @thedamnqueenofhell for suggesting!

-NeedyMeds - a nonprofit that helps pay for prescriptions. Thank you to @allitdoesispause for the suggestion! They also suggested checking the manufacturers website for a paitent assistance program, which can give you a coupon for free or cheaper meds.

- Scriptcycle - thank you to @teleomancer for the suggestion!

-Ask for a discount card - thank you to @cccshutdown for the reminder!

-Walmart - They have a $4 generic list! Thank you to @tristese !

- Nurx - is a Planned Parenthood alternative. You can get birth control and other medication here. Thanks to @tomhenks!

- Costco Pharmacy - which offers discounts and you don't need a membership to access. Thank you @alarmed-father!

- Walgreens RX Savings Finder - This let's you compare prices and applies discount codes from sites like GoodRx to find the most affordable option. Thank you to @maledictionwolf !

- CVS - which automatically applies discounts if you don't have insurance. Thank you, @imtrying-ok !

- MDsave - which provides lower costs for self-pay procedures. Thank you to @mustacchiofurioso who also recommended the next entry.

- Jasonlabs - for labwork.

- Check your hospital's outpatient clinic for cheaper prices! Thank you to @notropia

Stay safe, everyone. Things are about to get much, much worse in the US.

EDIT: if you're worried about doctor/therapy appointments, see if there's a sliding scale clinic near you (and ask your therapist if they offer sliding scale prices)

@scribblingandscrawling recommended Open Path, a service that offers sliding scale therapy

@Ilbertas had a great suggestion to check your community and colleges for free clinics.

As someone who would rather cut off my own limb than talk on the phone, I do not say this lightly. Now is the time to conquer our phone anxieties!

Amongst huge cuts to social programs that benefit millions of Americans, like medicaid and SNAP, the Big Beautiful Bill also includes provisions that will cut billions to student aid, cuts to the Federal Employee Retirement System, cut funding for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and ban states from regulating AI for the next decade.

.... The proposed cut is $880 billion over 10 years. The current medicaid budget is $890 billion for 2025. But the government has yet to produce a single drop of evidence of this amount of fraud. No proof. No concrete examples. No actual audit. Just numbers pulled out of someone's ass.

Meanwhile, studies have shown the $880 billion cut will result in at least 13.7 million Americans (not "illegal aliens") losing their coverage and 30,000 American deaths.

Please tell me how that's only illegal immigrants or able bodied people? These cuts will kill American citizens. They'll further destroy our already crumbling healthcare system, especially in rural areas. All to give the rich another tax cut.

What is patriotic about that? If you love your country, you want the best for it's citizens. This is not the best.

Please call your representatives and tell them hands off medicaid. The five calls app makes it extremely easy. It connects you directly to your reps and gives you a call script. Please fight to save American lives.

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