#healthcare reform

[reasonsforhope]

"In short: Nine million Canadian women of reproductive age will have the full cost of their contraception covered as part of a major health care reform, the government says.

The reform includes the most widely used contraceptive methods, such as IUDs, contraceptive pills, hormonal implants and the day after pill.

What's next? The government must still win the approval of Canada's provinces, which administer health care."

"Canada will cover the full cost of contraception for women, the government says as it highlights the first part of a major health care reform.

The government will pay for the most widely used contraceptive methods, such as IUDs, contraceptive pills, hormonal implants or the day after pill, for the nine million Canadian women of reproductive age, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Sunday at a press conference in a pharmacy in Toronto.

"Women should be free to choose the contraceptives they need without cost getting in the way. So, we're making contraceptives free," Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on X, formerly Twitter.

The announcement fleshes out the first part of a bill unveiled in February that, once completed, would mark the biggest expansion of Canada's publicly funded health care system in decades.

This new regime will also cover the cost of diabetes medication for some 3.7 million Canadians.

The cost of the new system and timing of the launch have not been announced...

The government must now win the approval of Canada's provinces, which actually administer health care, for this new system. Alberta and Quebec have already said they would opt out.

The pharmacare plan — as it is called locally — follows protracted negotiations between Mr Trudeau's Liberal minority government and a small leftist faction in parliament.

The New Democratic Party agreed to prop up the Liberals until the fall of 2025, on the condition that the government immediately launch the drug program."

-via ABC News Australia, March 31, 2024

#canada #canadian news #canadian politics #reproductive rights #contraception #iud #morning after pill #contraceptives #birth control #bodily autonomy #reproductive health #justin trudeau #healthcare #public health #healthcare reform #good news #hope

[dromaeocore]

Good news! There are plenty! Most of which have been in practice for years and have been shown to work! And these are just some of the alternatives!

#my art #mental health #mental health reform #psych reform #psychiatry critical #healthcare #healthcare reform #anti psychiatry #psychiatry #psychology #mental illness #psych critical

[chronicsymptomsyndrome]

fuck ABA

that’s all thank you for listening

#autistic rant #actually autistic #aba therapy #autism speaks #autistic trauma #healthcare reform #applied behavior analysis #fuck autism speaks #autistic community #autistic thoughts #unmasking autism #autistic meltdown #autistic children #late diagnosed autistic #anti ableism #ableism #neurodiversity #mental health education #disability education #disability advocacy #neurological disability #autistic adult #autistic things #autism creature #pda autistic #pda autism #pathological demand avoidance #autistic stimming #autism spectrum #adhd autistic

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

#us politics #memes #shitpost #gop #conservatives #republicans #conservatives be like #republicans be like #progressivism #societal advancements #societal progress #prison reform #education reform #criminal justice reform #police reform #healthcare reform #climate reform #tv shows #icarly

[moonlit-positivity]

My one goal for society as a whole is to introduce the conversation of our healthcare moving towards a more trauma informed state of mind, because healthcare professionals will look at someone who can't or "refuses" to speak, has self destructive tendencies, and has outbursts of extreme anger and rage, and they will say, "this person is difficult to manage and is a threat to society." And it's like, no, that person is actually traumatized as fuck from a childhood of rape & abuse, what that person needs is a more safer and specialized space for trusting that they are safe enough to talk about what they went through as a kid, rather than you and the rest of society perpetually making them feel even worse than what they already do, for not being able to trust that the people around them aren't gonna treat them like the only indication of what they had to see and endure as a kid. Like why do people go into the mental health field if you don't want to help actually traumatized individuals just as much as anyone else? Humanity will love to romanticize the need to kill predators and bash child abusers, but still absolutely refuses to acknowledge or accept the effects that growing up in these harmful environments can bring, that yes even though we should do away with all the bad and evil in this world, your romanticization of ending child abuse falls short when you're still telling kids they need to sit down shut up and mindlessly obey their parents, and when you tell adult survivors who come forth that they are destroying traditional family values by disrespecting their parents, and when you don't even want to acknowledge or sit with the harmful effects of sexual assault as a child. This has been the bane of my existence since I started openly talking about my trauma, the stigma from mental health professionals who are not even remotely trauma informed just doesn't even help when you are at your wits end with the pain and suffering and desperately needing answers, and the answers they give you are, "why are you yelling so loud? You need to be quiet." Why are we doing this if we aren't willing to help the people who actually need to be helped?? Child abuse exists, csa exists, and these things have extremely complex and irrational and harmful effects on a human being who has had to endure a life of being used and abused with no way out. I just wish people would be more aware of that, and that we could stop demonizing people for not being able to speak up and speak out about what they went through, in a world that is still committed to keeping us in a cage even when we are desperately trying to escape from it. Like why can't we ever talk about these things in places and in people who never even know what this feels like. Why do we have to search endlessly for trauma informed spaces for us to fully exist and be safe in? I don't get it.

#recovery #ptsd #trauma #mental health #mental health discussion #mental health discourse #society #trauma informed #recovering from abuse #healthcare #healthcare reform #stigma #stigmatized #cluster b #cluster b pd #bpd #borderline #actually traumatized #actually borderline #npd #avpd #hpd #avoidant

[lastweeksshirttonight]

Sonce last night basically had two large segments, I was wondering what would get posted on the YT channel.

The main topic is prison health care, and like most of John's stories on prison, the facts here and the way prisoners are treated is absolutely infuriating.

#john oliver #last week tonight #last week tonight with john oliver #prison reform #healthcare reform #Youtube

[fungi-funguy]

Caring For The Elderly

Reading an article by Vox about the crisis regarding care for older adults, and while I knew a lot of this, there's information I think more people should know.

(Article: "Baby boomers are aging. Their kids aren’t ready.")

A lot of Millennials, Gen X, and Gen Z are having to care for their parents. Our country isn't set up in the same way that it was when the Baby Boomers were born, and it's affecting their care as well as the entire family structure.

"By 2030, the US will for the first time have more residents over 65 than children. Someone turning 65 today has a 70 percent chance of needing long-term care at some point, and 20 percent will need it for more than five years."

"Medicare doesn’t cover most long-term care, and seniors only become eligible for care through Medicaid when they have almost no assets left. [...] the median annual cost of a full-time home health aide was nearly $60,000 in 2021, while a semi-private room in a nursing home ran $94,000 per year or more."

"To remedy the financial, mental, and physical health crisis facing boomers and their children, experts say improved paid leave is crucial. Caregivers can take unpaid time off under the Family Medical Leave Act, but without a salary, many can’t afford to."

The article also talks about the substantial gaps in Medicaid coverage, especially in regards to long-term care.

There are a lot of stories shared from the perspective of caregivers who are completely at a loss due to how little help the world offers. Mental and emotional strains due to working full-time jobs, combined with caring for one or more elderly parent, is increasing the stress levels in the younger populations. It's leading to higher rates of depression, anxiety, and heart disease.

If you're caring for an older family member, please remember that there is support out there in your community. If you aren't, please fight for better care for the elderly in these situations.

If you know someone who is a caregiver, please offer them whatever support you can.

And also, please remember to treat the elderly as the people they are. They're humans too, and they aren't some sort of monolith of pure evil rhetoric or something. They're people. And the forgetting of that information is half of why we have this crisis today.

#baby boomers #gen x #gen z #millenials #disability #disabled #disability rights #mental health #medicaid #healthcare in america #anxiety #depression #nursing homes #being kind is punk #healthcare reform #politics #everything is political #punk #cripple punk #disabled punk #elderly people #elder rights #some day you will be disabled #some day you will need cared for

[thepeopleinpower]

Capitalism and colonialism took community away from us and I want it back. I’ve heard about it from my grandparents and in books and articles online. All throughout history and still today in some parts of the world. People looking out for each other. Regularly. Relentlessly. Neighbors watching each others children, having enough food to share and actually sharing it, being invested in each others lives because everyone has different strengths.

Today community has been strategically painted as a weakness and something to be skeptical of because it is a threat to the very foundations of capitalism. And that’s a real fucking shame because in reality, growing up with community and still having that through adulthood would probably make most people generally happier and less perpetually tired and stressed. It is renewable resilient versatile adaptable self-sustaining and kind of the Ultimate Resource.

#I wish I could bake a cake filled with rainbows and smiles and everyone would eat and be happy #fuck capitalism #global community #local community #communities #community #fuck colonialism #fuck western media #settler colonialism #land back #indigenous liberation #indigenous communities #indigenous culture #human rights #renewable resources #sustainability #intersectional social justice #disability advocacy #social reformer #racial justice #wealth redistribution #healthcare reform #economic justic #environmental justice #generational healing #ancestral healing #industrialization #anti imperialism #religious tolerance #coexistence

[theculturedmarxist]

I wonder how much of Democrats completely giving up on any kind of healthcare reform or expansion has to do with someone crunching the numbers on Long Covid and seeing that in a few years a massive portion of the population is going to be crippled by it so "oh we can't do that it's to expensive it'll divert too much resources from our precious precious military" or "oh we can't do that it's too expensive it'll divert too much profits from our precious precious private healthcare system."

#long covid #healthcare reform #universal healthcare

[lifewithchronicpain]

Not only is access to healthcare supposed to be a right, but agency over one's healthcare choices is part of that right. It doesn't matter if people make the choices you would not make. All we can do is strive to make the choices safe and that people are given all the information they need to make that choice. It can be difficult because predatory behaviors exist, but the solution to these issues don't lie in taking away a person's choice but rather society strengthening patient protections.

#healthcare rights #healthcare reform #healthcare #patient rights #patient advocacy

[wollstonecraft-y]

#the ugly truth #education reform #prison reform #healthcare reform #universal healthcare #unalienable rights

[ninja-o-s]

Cool side effect of having a cold..

When you cough and have a lower back injury, you get to experience spasms of pain AND sore throat.

#healthcare reform

[dromaeocore]

@pisforpandemonium Absolutely!

So the first book I'm gonna recommend is Soteria by Loren Mosher and Voyce Hendrix. It's about the development of a home/intentional community for people with schizophrenia/psychosis. This home was very pro-autonomy, many workers had psychosis themselves, and they did use meds, but it was always the resident's choice and usually not the first line of treatment, as they found that psychosis often resolved on its own within a few weeks. Some of the methods used at Soteria were a little... wacky, being the 70s, but all in all it was very successful. There are now Soteria Houses all over the world.

Another one is Healing: Our Path From Mental Illness to Mental Health by Thomas Insel, MD. It's written by the former director of NIMH, and while I don't agree with every one of his takes, there is a great chapter about the Clubhouse Model, another peer support model created by a bunch of ex patients, by and for people with mental illness. People in the clubhouse are Members, not patients. They are assisted with vocational goals, food, etc, and most importantly, given community. It's a really interesting paradigm and there are hundreds of clubhouses all over the world now.

The Voices Within by Charles Fernyhough is a bit dry IMO, but it goes over the research behind voice-hearing and goes into the Hearing Voices Movement - another, you guessed it, peer support movement for voice hearers and other folks who have experiences not aligned with consensus reality i.e. psychosis.

Some others I haven't read yet are Geel Revisited after Centuries of Rehabilitation by Eugeen Roosens, and On Our Own: Patient Controlled Alternatives to the Mental Health System by Judi Chamberlin.

I'm also gonna rec a bunch of podcasts.

Heart Forward: Conversations from the Heart has a ton of awesome episodes about the US mental health system and alternatives to it. They have lovely episodes about peer respite and Trieste. It's such a compassionate and solution-focused podcast with a diverse amount of topics, I love it.

Patricia Deegan: Personal Medicine is a great one about Dr. Deegan's life and the Commonground Software she developed to help aid in joint decision-making with patients and providers, where patients have a solid say in their treatment. (I've listened to a ton of interviews with Dr. Deegan and she is an amazing, inspiring individual)

A Place of Safety? is hosted by an Italian psychiatrist who worked in Trieste (an Italian city with world-renowned mental healthcare) and he talks about a lot of problems with the NHS and how it relates to Trieste.

Alita Taylor - Open Dialogue is an episode about a highly successful mode of treatment in Western Lapland for people with psychosis and other mental illness. Here's a documentary I just found about the practice, haven't watched it yet but it looks cool.

Mad in America also has some interesting podcasts about many of these topics

Some articles:

Bethel House, basically Japan's version of Soteria

Hearing Voices Movement, as previously discussed

Hurdalsjøen Recovery Center, a "medication-free" hospital in Norway (meds are optional, not banned lol, and they also assist with tapering off)

Recovery Colleges, where struggling individuals, caregivers, and professionals all take an active role in learning about mental health

Obvs this isn't everything but I hope I've given you a good starting point!

#it's actually a goal of mine to write a book summarizing every one of these that I'm aware of lol bc afaik there isn't one yet #just every goddamn innovative and humane mental health practice there is :3 #pisforpandemonium #reply #psychiatry #mental health #psychiatry critical #healthcare reform

[chronicsymptomsyndrome]

Friendly reminder…you don’t ever have to publicly specify the “self” part of self-diagnosed. if you don’t want to. because I know it can sometimes feel like a caveat that you’re obligated to disclose but the thing is, you’re not even obligated to disclose your diagnoses in the first place, much less the source. so you can just say diagnosed. if you prefer. to feel safe and avoid scrutiny or fake-claims or for any other reason. because it’s the truth, it’s not even a lie. self-diagnosed is diagnosed

#self diagnosis is valid #if you don’t think so check your privilege honestly #self diagnosis #anti fakeclaiming #fake claiming #pro self diagnosis #educated self diagnosis #healthcare reform #intersectionality #comorbidities #comorbid conditions #adhd autistic #audhd #trauma symptoms #neurodiversity #accessibility #healthcare access #differential diagnosis #complex trauma #late diagnosis #adhd diagnosis #autism diagnosis #disability accessibility #disability advocacy #mental illness advocacy #mental health rant #trauma recovery #personality disorders #cptsd #bpd

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

#us politics #republicans #conservatives #memes #shitpost #gop #republicans be like #conservatives be like #libertarians be like #healthcare reform #healthcare for all #us healthcare #affordable healthcare #taxes #taxation isn't theft #taxation is theft and other lies by lolbertarians

[hufflepuffhermione]

happy Monday, this chapter is a big one so enjoy!

#josh x donna #josh lyman #donna moss #the west wing #tww fic #alli’s writings #healthcare reform