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Bush to screen population for mental illness
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| June 21, 2004
Posted on 06/21/2004 10:19:15 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
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To: Dane
I guess in your crusade for an honest outing of the facts you simply missed the link to the White House website posted in #46.
Honest mistake. You should go check it out; this isn't just Farah and BMJ as you've mistakenly (an honest omission, no question about it) posted. Good luck.
To: NittanyLion; Dane
The speech Sabertooth linked is proof enough for anyone willing to look at the facts. No, it's not.
Sheesh! You people probably think the 9/11 Commission is credible...
522
posted on
06/22/2004 9:44:40 AM PDT
by
Corin Stormhands
(Osama remains "missing" 'cause Michael Moore ate him...)
To: AntiGuv
523
posted on
06/22/2004 9:45:40 AM PDT
by
citizen
(Write-in Tom Tancredo President 2004!)
To: NittanyLion; Dane
I guess in your crusade for an honest outing of the facts you simply missed the link to the White House website posted in #46. Did you read that link? It's the WH progress report on the commission. It specifically refers to people with disabilities. Over and over.
524
posted on
06/22/2004 9:46:48 AM PDT
by
Corin Stormhands
(Osama remains "missing" 'cause Michael Moore ate him...)
To: JohnHuang2
Uhhh, this is a joke, right??? I hope so, if Bush wants to re-elected.
525
posted on
06/22/2004 9:47:13 AM PDT
by
ZULU
To: Dane
The blood boiled by many, and there has been much discussion. I can see that. I was particularly impressed by this statement that you made:
President Bush probably gets 100's of crazy proposals each day. He has the guts to post them on the White House website for knee jerkers like you to chew on to get some feedback.
With friends like you Pres. Bush doesn't need enemies.
526
posted on
06/22/2004 9:47:19 AM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Intellectuals only exist if you think they do!)
To: Corin Stormhands
No, it's not. Sheesh! You people probably think the 9/11 Commission is credible... Let's recap events to this point. The President appointed a commission which has come back with this incredibly boneheaded initiative.
But this is just WND spreading some vicious rumors. Ooooookay.
To: cgk
Yes, I had the same type of experience myself in the 80's. I didn't expand in my previous post, but the doctors had put me on Prozac, et al for the symtoms I gave them. CLASSIC symptoms of diabetes. The nurse in the hospital where I finally landed told me my sugar was so high that if I'd gone much longer without a proper diagnosis, I would have gone into a diabetic coma and died.
What I also didn't share in my previous post is that I am bi-polar. It is a very convenient dumping ground for incompetent diagnosticians. That's how I know that diseases WILL be lumped under "mental health treatment required".
I am so sorry to hear of your own medical problems, which are much worse than mine. I certainly hope you have a REAL doctor now !!!
To: NittanyLion
I guess in your crusade for an honest outing of the facts you simply missed the link to the White House website posted in #46 Uh they are not "facts" but proposals.
Get a dictionary and read some definitions about words.
Joe farah, the person who gets no scrunity in your book, twisted those defintions.
But what the hey you worship at the altar of the press, that's your right as an American.
529
posted on
06/22/2004 9:49:21 AM PDT
by
Dane
To: JohnHuang2
Amazing. President Bush is a physician, too???????
To: Sabertooth
I seem to remember this speech, and I'm simply not inclined to believe it goes as far as you think it might. It seems to me that the President is pointing out the differences in mental health care in private insurance versus, I suppose - government health insurance? Medicare and medicaid. I'll say I had the unfortunate position of belonging to govt health care at a point in my life, and it is near impossible to get certain things done, which I find I am able to do easily with private insurance (and I still belong to an HMO plan.)
Mental health isn't covered in govt insurance as free-and-clear coverage, unless they changed it recently. Is it possible that is what he is speaking about? That government health care is not providing for mental health issues? But private insurance provides access?
I don't read that speech and end up thinking that he is going to ask that every person in America is screened, then medicated as needed.
531
posted on
06/22/2004 9:49:49 AM PDT
by
cgk
(3000+ 9/11. Pearl, Fallujah, Berg, Jacob, Scroggs, Johnson... Never forget. Never Again!)
To: TigersEye
With friends like you Pres. Bush doesn't need enemies. nah, he already has one and his name is Joe Farah, who twists definitions and proposals.
532
posted on
06/22/2004 9:52:13 AM PDT
by
Dane
To: WhiteGuy
I can't decide which is more ridiculous, this proposal or the reasoning behind defending this proposalAre you kidding. They could propose checking everyone's homes for available, unoccupied bedrooms to temporarily house illegal aliens, and the homeowner would receive a government voucher, and some here would defend it, without a doubt.
533
posted on
06/22/2004 9:52:24 AM PDT
by
Joe Hadenuf
(I failed anger management class, they decided to give me a passing grade anyway)
To: Dane
You're in good company then.
534
posted on
06/22/2004 9:53:22 AM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Intellectuals only exist if you think they do!)
To: TigersEye
You're in good company then Thank you, I don't run around the crowd that thinks that tin foil is vogue.
535
posted on
06/22/2004 9:57:04 AM PDT
by
Dane
To: NittanyLion
I'm still waiting for the words from the White House that says everyone will be screened. II've not found it on the WH website. And I've not seen it clearly stated in the commission's report either.
WND's established hate for George Bush and tabloid tendencies has little to do with this.
536
posted on
06/22/2004 9:57:54 AM PDT
by
Corin Stormhands
(Osama remains "missing" 'cause Michael Moore ate him...)
To: Dane
It's not wise to run with either the tin foil or the "everything a Republican does is right and perfect" crowd.
537
posted on
06/22/2004 9:57:59 AM PDT
by
Bella_Bru
(It's for the children = It takes a village)
To: Sabertooth
Will such screening be compulsory? No, it will be voluntary.
Of course, if you don't volunteer, then you must not be in good mental health.
538
posted on
06/22/2004 9:59:10 AM PDT
by
Ken H
To: Joe Hadenuf
They could propose checking everyone's homes for available, unoccupied bedrooms to temporarily house illegal aliens, and the homeowner would receive a government voucher, and some here would defend it, without a doubt. But the important thing is that such a policy would steal one of the Dems' issues! Don't you see - it's brilliant strategery!
To: Corin Stormhands; NittanyLion; Dane
To: NittanyLion; Dane
The speech Sabertooth linked is proof enough for anyone willing to look at the facts. No, it's not. Sheesh! You people probably think the 9/11 Commission is credible...
522 posted on 06/22/2004 9:44:40 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (Osama remains "missing" 'cause Michael Moore ate him...)
I don't quite get the 9/11 reference. All I suggested in my comments at #447 was that President Bush proposed a vision of a large and comprehensive federal mental health apparatus. In scanning the Final Report of the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, there are many recommendations for for widespread early detection and intervention of mental health problems in individual Americans. It's true that President Bush hasn't signed off on all of the details proposed, but it's also true, to my reading, that none of the proposals are in conflict with the goals stated by President Bush in the speech where he announced the formation of this commission. What seems a crystal certainty, however, given past experience with federal medical bureaucracies, is that any proposal will simply be an opening bid. The program will balloon, costs will spiral, and missions will creep. It also seems clear to me that if every word spoken by President Bush in this endeavor had come from the mouth of Senator Clinton, fewer posters on this board would be so sanguine as they are this morning.
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540
posted on
06/22/2004 10:01:19 AM PDT
by
Sabertooth
(Mohammedanism is an evil empire.)
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