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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Hmm, just in time to coincide with ENDA. Don’t call the guy in a dress at work by his girly name? See the Shrink.
Hmm, just in time to coincide with ENDA. Don’t call the guy in a dress at work by his girly name? See the Shrink.
Quick what communist goal is it to take over the mental health profession and lable all opposition as mentally ill?
Wow, this is so cool, we will have mental health care and hospitals as good as Stalin's Russia!
Psychology has been called upon to fill the gap that abandoned spirituality left, and it can’t. That’s at best like calling in a bookkeeper to fix your problem with being unable to turn a profit.
Sometimes spirituality does work under the covers of psychology, and we get what we call the Christian psychologist. And these persons are often useful in the Lord’s ministry, but still the framework that they have to fit tends to limit their usefulness. And they have to be careful to stay out of the secular psychological stereotypes which are transcended by the grace and love of the Lord. Some manifestations of agape love can too easily be called things like “codependency” and “enabling” when they are not, they are the sincere work of the Lord with a definite plan. I had a chance to see how that system worked, and it works better than some preachers give it credit for, but now I can see how a really great gospel will transcend it.
Another danger here is the state-ifying of the trade. As goofy as it has gotten, at least it has stayed private. Once it serves the state, it will be abused, not might but will. The old Soviet Union was the warning case for this.
What could pierce through the confusion, destruction and gloom would be a resurgence of gospel power, something beyond the “churchianity” of most of the 20th century. Bluntly put we need to call on the Lord to be saved, and that from top to bottom. There’s nothing in our secularized system, absolutely nothing, that we can withhold from the Lord and expect to turn out well.
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There wasn’t anything new. All that had been in place. No insurance plan could charge more for mental health issues than for medical
All the Pig did was to make it sound new and try to deflect from her and 0dumbo’s debacle
there was NOTHING new
Exactly!
Indeed this is unicorn dander huffing to the highest degree... (I mean such a system).
I think the collapse of Obamacare from its unwieldiness will happen before this can happen, though.
“My otherwise conservative sister thinks mental health treatment should be widely available free. Mental health is more witchcraft than science. What exactly would you give away? Drugs? Shock treatments? Involuntary incarceration? What qualifies as needing treatment? Too fat? Mental health issue. Spend too much? Mental health issue. Believe in guns and the second amendment? mental health issue.”
If you saw my sister, on and off her depression meds, you might have a different view. She needs them, realizes that, takes them, side effects and all. (She does not, never has used drugs or alcohol)
Some people take themselves on and off the drugs they need, leaving the casual layperson with the idea that the drugs do no good.
There are plenty of legitimate mental problems, best treated with drugs.
And there is plenty of misdiagnosis too.
Many with mental issues, turn to not only their prescribed drugs (on and off) and drugs/alcohol—making matters much worse.
Not uncommon is an alcoholic who gets a doctor to prescribe depression meds, for alcohol is a depressant, and it works.
Now we have a compounded problem. Misuse of alcohol and psych meds.
Get the person sober, off alcohol, and the depression MAY go away, too.
Got a point, and they probably will follow up with other propaganda about supposed niceties of the system. Artificial sunshine. And all those old fuddy duddy GOP people can do is talk about the gloom of trivial technicalities — like how it cannot possibly work. It is asking for redemption without a Redeemer.
THIS was her announcement??!?
SMDH
Nobody says the art can’t be used to the good.
However note that the Author of goodness, the Lord, is not to be seen in the picture we have.
So Much Doggone Hokum???
Just what we want and need - the Federal Government having complete access to any mental issue that is displayed in our computerized medical file with the IRS goons enforcing the latest mandate.
Shaking my damned head.
You seem to be confusing "anti-depressant" (drug used to treat depression) with a central nervous system "depressant" -- alcohol (actually a disinhibitor with euphoric effects). No relation whatsoever.
Whatever it is, it will be expected to be deluxe.
What good is mental health treatment for people who have no minds?
(OK, just kidding there, but the single man has to have mammograms coverage. Etc.)
Oh come on, your head isn’t damned. John 3:17
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