Bill to Screen, Medicate Kids May Hit Senate This Week

The New Standard ^ | 11/15/04 | Christopher Getzan

[Indie]

I've been very reticent to play the 'not playing with a full deck card' when referencing Bush, but if he is going to support stuff like this, my avoiding that isn't going to do him a lick of good. He's his own worst enemy when he supports things like this. There simply isn't any defense for it if your at all rational. That's my take.

Ditto! And if the repulicRats want a revolution, they will pass this bill. Personally, I would think they'd know our military is a little too tied up right now to fight off a few million Patrick Henrys.

[Mulder]

New Freedom Initiative (NFI)

Can they get any more Orwellian with these names?

[Dustbunny]

I don't like the sound of this bill and why is dubya pushing for it.

[SunkenCiv]

In 2003, the Commission... pointed to a program begun during George Bush's governorship of Texas called the Texas Medication Algorithm Project (TMAP), which set a standard operating procedure within a flow chart allowing psychiatrists to identify and medicate possible conditions.The American Psychiatric Association, which itself receives some of its funding from drug companies, has voiced approval for the plan, and a number of other states are already researching and implementing their own versions of TMAP... On the coattails of the bill's passage out of the House, Representative Ron Paul (R-Texas) is now championing the "Let Parents Raise Their Kids Act," which would prevent federal dollars to fund any universal system of mental health screening that does not hinge on parental-guardian consent. Previously, Paul had failed to insert an amendment to the appropriations bill blocking federal funding of the NFI recommendations.

Hmm.

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[B4Ranch]

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free -- Ronald Reagan

[CDHart]

It would be nice to have the bill # so that one could read the bill before calling the senators.

Carolyn