Thu
Jul 23, 2009 10:04 am (PDT)
FEDERAL HEALTH BILL CALLS FOR BILLIONS IN ORWELLIAN PSYCH
PROGRAMS AND
TREATMENTS
Information: There is currently an effort in Congress to pass a
massive “Health Care Reform”
bill. In fact, Congressional leadership is doing everything in
its power to pass
this $1 trillion plus bill before the August recess.
Action is called for, NOW. Here's why.
There are two versions of the bill — one in the
House (H.R. 3200) and one in the Senate (there is no number for
the Senate bill
at this point, but it is titled the Affordable Health Choices
Act).
Both bills forward massive increases in
government funding of mental health programs that turn America
into a full blown
therapeutic state.
The Senate bill (the Affordable Health Choices
Act) includes:
* Funding for community based “Health Teams,” which will
establish a system of early identification and referral for
children at risk for developmental or behavioral problems.
* Allocation of up to $5 billion every year for School Based
Health Clinics to provide such services as: mental health
assessments (screening), crisis intervention, treatment,
counseling and referral to emergency psychiatric care.
* A five-year program for the Center for Disease Control to
provide public health “interventions,” screenings and clinical
referrals for individuals between 55 and 64 years of age.
* The creation of a new “paraprofessional child and adolescent
mental health worker.” The legislation states that this is
“...an individual who is not a mental or behavioral health
service professional, but who works at the first stage of
contact with children and families who are seeking mental or
behavioral health services.”
The House bill (H.R. 3200) includes:
* This bill also calls for the establishment of School Based
Health Clinics that will provide mental health assessments
(screening), crisis intervention, treatment, counseling and
referral to emergency psychiatric care.
* Specific funding for mental health counselors and marriage and
family therapists.
* The bill creates a home visitation program for families with
young children or which are expecting children or who have
certain “risk factors.” The program, which is stated as
voluntary, provides assessments regarding matters of “age
appropriate behaviors,” for children, prevention of family
violence and referral to outside services.
* The bill mandates a sweeping mental health parity, which could
well encompass all 374 diagnoses in the Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual (DSM) and opens the door to coverage for
everything from phase of life problem to sibling rivalry
disorder. The costs would be horrendous.
* The bill provides for unlimited mental health benefits. As
there is no objective or medical test for psychiatric disorders,
this is a virtual blank check to the mental health industry.
Psychiatric patients are traditionally “cured”
when their insurance benefits run out. In this bill, those
benefits never run out. And without anything other than a
psychiatrist's opinion about whether
or not the person's “illness” is “cured,” this legislation
becomes nothing more
than taxpayer funded billions to psychiatrists, who will
continue their jihad of
mass drugging of Americans.
Your voice needs to be heard TODAY in Washington
on these outrageous bills. Call, fax, or email your
Representative and Senator
TODAY and tell them that you are opposed to the above points
(pick 3-4) in the
Health Care Reform bills. To find your Representative and get
their contact
information, go to
http://www.house.gov/ and
to find your Senator and get their contact information, go to
http://www.senate.gov/.
(Alert from CCHR International)
Sincerely,
Amy Philo
214-705-0169 home
817-793-8028 cell
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