All right. What's your name? And where are you from? My name is Jessica Swillings and I live in Sandersville, Georgia. Um, do you live with a mental health condition or substance abuse disorder? I actually live with co occurring disorders, which is both mental health and substance use disorder. I'm in recovery from both. Thanks for sharing. How has Medicaid impacted your treatment plan? Um, well, as far as um, my treatment plan, I was able to get my medication um, at little to no cost, um, when I was approved for, um, for Medicaid, which that was before and then, um, before I was recently pregnant and I was able to get post, um, postnatal, um, Medicaid for a year, which really helped because I was still able to get, you know, um, my mental health medications as well as, um, my regular medication and I didn't have to worry about having to wrestle with, um, have to make life decisions over medication and bills or food, um, because I was able to have that, that support there. Absolutely. Thank you. Um, and then when you applied for Medicaid, did you have any issue with accessing those services? I, I did not, that has not been my experience with Medicaid. Um, is, um, it was a very good experience when I was approved. Um, there have been times that I've applied and I've been denied but for the times that I've been approved and I was able to access the services from help with transportation to, um, you know, finding a primary care provider to get in my medications, um, whether it was through like the pharmacy at Walmart or my local pharmacies, um, which I prefer to use, there was never any problems. Yeah. And then lastly if you could tell your legislator anything about closing the coverage gap, what would it be? We need it because not everybody has a success story and not everybody is able to get them, their medications at, uh, at no cost or at very low cost. And sometimes even if it's at a low cost, a lot of people don't have that right now. So we need to, we need help with that. We need support as a nation in that area.
