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Kathleen Sebelius announces new mental health parity requirements for health insurers
Washington Examiner ^ | 11-8-2013

Posted on 11/08/2013 11:01:19 AM PST by markomalley

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Friday said that new requirements imposed on insurance companies by Obamacare will require those companies to treat mental illness and addiction that same as physical illness, creating "the largest behavioral health expansion in a generation."

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: 0bamaphoney; banglist; guarantee; mentalhealth; mentalhealthreg; nobodycantakeaway; obamacare; obamacarepremiums; obamacareregulations; period; singlepayer
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To: markomalley

Because our country just isn’t in debt enough.


41 posted on 11/08/2013 11:32:03 AM PST by lurk
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To: steve86

No I think this is accurate. Saying they will use the antidepressant to counter the depressant effect of the excessive alcohol.


42 posted on 11/08/2013 11:32:43 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: markomalley
Aren't we lucky to have such a concerned and generous Healthcare Commissar?
43 posted on 11/08/2013 11:33:11 AM PST by windsorknot (>>>)
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To: lurk

They’re going the whole hog. Saying they might as well be hanged for a sheep as for a goat. It is enough to cow the bravest man. What a doggy situation. It requires cat calls.


44 posted on 11/08/2013 11:33:44 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

SMMFH?


45 posted on 11/08/2013 11:33:58 AM PST by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: markomalley

So if your addiction is just an illness, and if you go to treatment, free, of course, your employer has to stand for you and keep your job even if you are high, strung out, drunk. Hardly motivation to quit. “I’m sick, boss! You can’t fire me! Where is my designated crack smoking room?”


46 posted on 11/08/2013 11:34:25 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: Zathras

Precisely.


47 posted on 11/08/2013 11:34:55 AM PST by SueRae (It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I hope you be right.


48 posted on 11/08/2013 11:35:04 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: windsorknot

Oh wow Kathleen.

Can we take you home again Kathleen?
To where your heart will feel no pain.
And when the fields are fresh and green
We’ll take you to your home again.


49 posted on 11/08/2013 11:35:37 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: Dr. Ursus

Believe in the Second Amendment? Get sent to a mental institution. Lose your rights and freedom.

Member of the TEA Party? Get sent to a mental institution.
Lose your rights and freedom.

Member of the Republican party or ANY political party other than the democrats? Get sent to a mental institution.
Lose your rights and freedom.

Are you a Christian? Get sent to a mental institution.
Lose your rights and freedom.

Opposed to homosexual “marriage?” Get sent to a mental institution. Lose your rights and freedom.

Own an SUV or pick up? You must be crazy. Vehicle is confiscated. Get sent to a mental institution. Lose your rights and freedom.

Repeal or Revolution!


50 posted on 11/08/2013 11:35:55 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (The Second Amendment makes all the other amendments possible)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Well, if that’s what he meant, yes. But the use of “depressant” in technical literature regarding alcohol is with respect to its role as a CNS depressant — nothing to do with affect at all.


51 posted on 11/08/2013 11:36:11 AM PST by steve86 (Some things aren't really true but you wouldn't be half surprised if they were.)
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To: Lazamataz

What Google isn’t useful for today. Even if it is to look up a piece of the cultural sewer.


52 posted on 11/08/2013 11:36:35 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: steve86

Well, it can carry over into affect. Some of the grouchiest people are drunks, who might have been sad but not grouchy before getting into benders.


53 posted on 11/08/2013 11:37:20 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: KC_Lion
Quick what communist goal is it to take over the mental health profession and lable all opposition as mentally ill?

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.

54 posted on 11/08/2013 11:37:25 AM PST by NurdlyPeon (It is the nature of liberals to pervert whatever they touch.)
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To: markomalley

Would this include the therapy for homosexuals that Governors Moonbeam and Krispy Kreme banned?


55 posted on 11/08/2013 11:37:39 AM PST by JediJones (The #1 Must-see Filibuster of the Year: TEXAS TED AND THE CONSERVATIVE CRUZ-ADE)
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To: markomalley

This is what she is really saying.

Just as there are preventative physical health measures built into the system, special tests/evaluations and procedures are being put into place for mental health and everyone will be required to have these evaluations to determine the condition of their mental health.

They will ask questions about guns, conservative positions, and anything else they don’t like. If they don’t like your answers, or don’t like you, and your beliefs, they will designate you to be unhealthy mentally, remove any firearms or other contraband devices in your home and place you in the proper facility for rehabilitation.

And you will pay for all this yourself through much higher premiums in Obamacare.


56 posted on 11/08/2013 11:38:55 AM PST by Waryone
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To: NurdlyPeon

And ultimately it results in societal suicide, or else crying “Uncle” loudly enough to let capitalism back in.


57 posted on 11/08/2013 11:40:06 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

“Bluntly put we need to call on the Lord to be saved, and that from top to bottom.”

I see zero possibility for a resurgence of Christianity. The entire society has moved away from faith, religion and any sort of philosophy of any description. There is not even any critical thinking being taught in schools. The government has all but banned Christianity, but embraced “diversity” which it interprets to mean Islam. (Ironically, Islam is the least inclusive and diverse “religion” on the planet.)

A resurgence would require getting rid of government restraint and anti-religious propaganda combined with a popular resurgence in the media and entertainment worlds. Both of those despise Christianity with a passion and regularly produce powerful and influential works against it.

Even if Jesus returned tomorrow I doubt that he could get the word out. Unless he regularly turned the media and entertainment people into goats they’d make mincemeat out of him on the talk show circuit. He could bring back the dead and they’d still be critical.


58 posted on 11/08/2013 11:40:34 AM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: JediJones

Nah because they banned it, of course. Gotta scrimp somewhere.


59 posted on 11/08/2013 11:40:39 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: Gen.Blather
I see zero possibility for a resurgence of Christianity.

Congratulations you bought Satan's propaganda hook line and sinker.

60 posted on 11/08/2013 11:41:19 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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