Posted on 04/27/2016 7:27:36 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
PITTSBURGH — Gov. John Kasich often speaks about mental health in his campaign for president. He has defended his decision to expand Medicaid in Ohio by highlighting its benefits for mentally ill residents. He is probably the only Republican candidate this year to ask a crowd, “Do you know what it’s like for somebody to live with depression?” The question, posed at a rally in upstate New York recently, threw a hush over a room of 1,000 people. Mr. Kasich went on: “There are people here who know exactly what I’m talking about.” Mr. Kasich is one who knows. His only brother, Richard, 59, has struggled with depression disorders since college. He was occasionally hospitalized and today receives disability benefits for mental illness.
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Oh so it runs in his family....
“Do you know what it’s like for somebody to live with depression?”
What does that have to do with expanding the size, scope and cost of government?
Sounds more like Kasich caught mental illness...libodorkia...the inability to make moral judgements that stick for more than ten seconds.
Typical NYT try.
Journalists are such weak minded little things .
Dad was mailman. John coulda gone postal.
Do you know what it’s like for somebody to live with depression
NO, I have been too busy WORKING to have the time to be depressed.
Explains a lot....
Not a thing. There are drugs that work on that. And most Primary’s are capable of prescribing them. PSTD is a more important issue in my book, it effects our deployed or been deployed Military at a very high rate, and it it’s violent crime victims too.
Why are we not expanding PRISONS instead to remove violent criminals off the streets or executed? 3 violent crimes and you go to Death Row you are not redeemable. Full sentences served, no parole, no good behavior 30% and out.
You wanna help the mentally ill? Tear down the Great Wall of HIPAA that keeps family members from being able to intervene and assist them.
Public policy should not be dictated by feelings, emotions, or personal opinion, especially the opinion of a guy for whom mental illness runs in the family.
Using emotions to make decisions is for chicks, and is not acceptable.
Most reasonable people can understand the need for some kind of assistance from society when dealing with mental illness.
The problem is, when the government is the sole solution, whatever well-intentioned program is put in place is immediately and overwhelmingly set upon by people looking to game the system, which then needs more money and resources, and next thing you know, it has a budget of billions of dollars and tens of thousands of people.
And too many of the recipients of this well meaning largesse who sit in lawn chairs relaxing on Wednesday mornings are not mentally ill at all. But you are cruel and heartless if you point that out.
Yeah John, I get depressed whenever I think of you in the White House you Cuck.
Because he wants to impart that feeling, desperation and helplessness over to every other taxpayer, regardless of the impact and cost. Crazy is crazy. Spreading its effects over the masses does NOTHING to solve the crazy in the first place. Nor does it lessen the emotion impact on the crazies’ family.
When I was a young professional in Japan, I could have really used a program which paid for my kid's tuition to international schools in Japan because my job just didn't pay enough to afford it.
As a result, I had to send my daughters to public schools in Japan. The result was that they had some real adaptation problems when we moved back to the United State.
My youngest, in particular, couldn't even speak English very well.
Fast forward 14 years later, and she is a professional living in an elite neighborhood in Tokyo which I couldn't even have dreamed of affording when we were there. And she did it all without some special government program.
NO, I have been too busy WORKING to have the time to be depressed.
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Congratulations on your lack of mental illness.
My hope is that you can continue to be blissfully ignorant about the difference between being bummed out about something and clinically depressed.
I think that headline says more than was planned.
A relative handful of her cases (less than 30%) were impressed with the results when she just demonstrated this with them a few times. Most of them were interested only in making sure the government check continued.
The excuses were laughable. None of them had the time, money, etc. to buy simple things like books or board games. But they all had multiple big screen televisions, the latest electronic gadgets such as X-box, Play Station, etc. which are to autistic kids what an open bar is to winos.
I’ve been depressed since the first time I met a liberal.
So they want the federal government to be in charge of ‘depression’ ?
How about a federal department for creating a federal department for every special interest the public has?
Because the federal government is just filled with people who are smart enough to do everything
and the jokes continue to write themselves...
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