Bush to screen population for mental illness

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | June 21, 2004

[TigersEye]

Is this for real? I can predict that this will be about as popular as HillaryCare.

I dunno about that. Legal, goobermint approved and payed for and Doctor prescribed feelgoods for everybody? It'll probably go over very well. It's for the best doncha know?

[NittanyLion]

Actually the original source is the British Medical journal. And as I said earlier on this thread, Medical journals would never ever publish a hyperbolic article.(/sarcasm)

Let me lay out some other canned responses:

"The original source is Laura Bush. She doesn't know what her husband is doing."

"The original source is President Bush. Great strategery! I love this guy!"

The speech Sabertooth linked is proof enough for anyone willing to look at the facts.

[Dane]

Did you see me saying I wouldn't vote for Bush? I am voting for Bush, so not exactly knee jerk is it? I think you're a jerk for throwing around name calling where it doesn't apply

Uh, cyber six million dollar man, your knee jerkedness is from you taking a WND article as the God's honest truth.

Nothing has been proposed, all is speculation from a commission, yet farah ran with the ball and ran in the wrong direction, IMO.

[JudyB1938]

I can easily forsee a day in the near future in which our health insurers will mandate "routine screening" as a condition of continued coverage -- and, and automatic "referral" for anyone "irrational" enough to refuse such a reasonable requirement, at the cost of losing their coverage.

Oh, dear. That is so scary to me.

The doctor I went to where I recently moved is incompetent and lacks diagnostic skills. When he could not figure out what was causing the pain in my leg, he recommended that I go to the Mental Health Clinic for Treatment.

That is a flash-back to the days when women's ills were often treated as "hypochrondia". With this new system, too many medical problems will be treated as "Prozac necessary". Just so doctors can cover up their incompetency and drug companies can make money?

Oh, Sweet Jesus, come quickly. I don't like this Brave New World.

[cyborg]

Go ahead and believe your Carl Rove talking points.

[Joe Hadenuf]

LOL.....

[Dane]

per your reply #503, all I have to say is,

Weak, very weak.

[jsbankston]

Brave new world, here we come. I can't believe a Republican administration has proposed such an abomination.

Don't worry, when the BushBots are standing in line waiting to be screened by the Federal Department of Mental Health and Medications they will devise a rationalization of why this is the greatest idea ever proposed by an American president.

[Mo1]

I missed this one last night due to computer problems and it over 500 posts now

Do you have a summary available??

[NittanyLion]

There are none so blind as those who will not see.

I'm a Bush supporter, but I'm not about to excuse every foolish policy (or potential policy) the administration dreams up. Nor should you.

[WhiteGuy]

President Bush plans to unveil next month a sweeping mental health initiative that recommends screening for every citizen and promotes the use of expensive antidepressants and antipsychotic drugs favored by supporters of the administration.


I can't decide which is more ridiculous, this proposal or the reasoning behind defending this proposal.

[Dane]

Go ahead and believe your Carl Rove talking points

JMO, that's better than your tin foil WND talking points.

[cyborg]

Riiiiiight whatever... as long as its President Bush proposing the idea. If it was democrat, people like you would be the first ones screaming. Fine. That makes me a WND tinfoil nutter.

[cgk]

LOL! Sorry you gave me a funny flashback to waking up and being unable to feel my feet. The numbness progressed to my waist, and I was off-balance. Tied it to pins and needles and periperheral vision blindness a year previous. The ER doc said "peripheral neuropathy", "not central nervous system" related, and DID suggest I seek mental health assistance for "stress".

Final diagnosis one year later? Multiple Sclerosis. A central nervous system disease. You see, he was right and wrong... it WAS all in my head! ;)

[TigersEye]

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.

Let me get this straight. You think that Pres. Bush posts crazy proposals that he gets on the WH website so that he can get feedback from crazy people and you consider that a courageous thing to do?

[Dane]

There are none so blind as those who will not see.

I'm a Bush supporter, but I'm not about to excuse every foolish policy (or potential policy) the administration dreams up. Nor should you

Yet you excuse, Joe Farah, the British medical Journal.

Oh that's right they are the press and not the elected Executive branch of the govt.

So they are automatically excused from any scrunity in your book.

[dread78645]

Where does it even CREDIT bmj.com

The second paragraph.

The New Freedom Initiative, according to a progress report, seeks to integrate mentally ill patients fully into the community by providing "services in the community, rather than institutions," the British Medical Journal reported.

[Bella_Bru]

Sure, why not. Here, I'll give it a shot. If you don't like The Program, that's evidence of... a disorder. And once you're screened, and "treated", you will like the program. It's like Catch 22, but even nicer! Do you feel better yet?

<----Stepping back slowly....

Sure. I feel great now.

[Dane]

Let me get this straight. You think that Pres. Bush posts crazy proposals that he gets on the WH website so that he can get feedback from crazy people and you consider that a courageous thing to do?

Actually what was posted on FR was Joe Farah's of WND's account.

The blood boiled by many, and there has been much discussion.

To be succinct, I will trust GW Bush over Joe Farah, every day of the week.