Posted on 11/08/2013 10:11:24 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
The Obama administration, fresh off an apology from President Obama to Americans who are losing their current health plans under his new health care law, forged ahead Friday with rules that place mental health and substance abuse care on equal footing with medical and surgical benefits.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the historic step in Atlanta alongside former first lady Rosalynn Carter a longtime champion for mental health research in a nod toward the generation-long effort to make sure millions of Americans with behavioral health problems get the same care as patients with physical issues.
For way too long, the health care system has openly discriminated against people with behavioral health problems, Mrs. Sebelius said on a conference call with reporters.
The announcement marks movement on one of 23 executive actions that Vice President Joe Biden developed to address gun violence in the wake of the December 2012 school shooting in Newtown, Conn.
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Does our government have to pay for EVERYTHING we need?????
We’ll see what this actually means, but the mental health policy in the US has been a disgrace for a long long time.
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And EVERY appointment my veteran husband has they ask him about the firearms he owns. Since he is taking an anti-depressant and suffers PSTD, they ask him to voluntarily turn them in. Shame on them.
No. WE have to pay for everything THEY think we need.
Oops! PTSD
Lubyanka is here
With doctors as spies and the government having the ability to do whatever they darn well please with anybody within the system, it seems like figuring out natural medicines would be a good idea.
Going off the grid altogether seems like a good idea.
Hmm Thanks.
Obamas sincerity is so hit and miss....
Veiled Gun Grab, Period.
Protip: Don't answer when a Medical Doctor is asking about gun ownership.
Protip: Don’t answer when a Medical Doctor is asking about gun ownership.
Remember. It’s ok to lie. Presidents do it every day.
The whole point of this push is to punish the enemies of socialist rule.
COMMUNIST GOALS - 1963
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm
COMMUNIST GOALS - 1963
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm
Liberalism is a mental disease.
Liberalism is a mental disease.
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