**This is what the White House webpage says about the link you all are quoting: *"On April 29, 2002, the President issued Executive Order 13263 establishing the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. Composed of fifteen members representing providers, payers, administrators, and consumers of mental health services, as well as family members of consumers, and seven ex officio members, the Commission was charged with conducting a comprehensive study of the United States mental health service delivery system, including public and private sector providers, and was directed to advise the President on methods of improving the system. In July 2003, the Commission issued its recommendations in a final report entitled Achieving the Promise, Transforming Mental Health Care in America. See http://www.mentalhealthcommission.gov/reports/reports.htm. The report identifies barriers to care within the mental health system and examples of community-based care models that have proven successful in coordinating and providing treatment services." **The report has recommendations yes, BUT THE WHITE HOUSE page has outlined what it took from the report. If I didn't know the reputation that you have, I'd be surprised at your polemics. You don't surprise. Ever.
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Saber:"So again, how do we find "every adult with a serious mental illness or child with a serious emotional disturbance" without universal screening?
Bay Buchanan ain't got nothin' on your polemics, Saber. No matter how many times you repost the same thing, time and time and time again.
Let me ask you this. If the President had said:
"Every adult with cancer must have an individualized plan of care coordinating services among programs and across agencies."
Would you have assumed that he was proposing every American to have federally subsidized cancer screenings?
On second thought, maybe you shouldn't answer that.
I'm starting to get the impression that no one will ever answer that simple question.
Do you have any idea of why this might be?
Every adult with a serious mental illness or child with a serious emotional disturbance must have an individualized plan of care coordinating services among programs and across agencies.
They are not going to get "EVERY" adult. There's a guy who lives about a crow's mile from me here in the country who is an extreme skitzo. He has never been to the doctor for it, because he doesn't want to get into the system. He said it's bad enough that they beam voices into his head. He doesn't want to give them any more access to his person.
The words "identifies barriers" in the second paragraph of your post relates to Nos. 3 and 4 in your "fleshed out excerpt." "Barriers" in this case refers to two things: government money and government coercion. You're still bitin', 'Tooth.