Partisanship and Differing Philosophies Dog Mental Health Efforts in House

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/05/08/mental-health-bills-introduced/8816035

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http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/205047-house-dems-ready-to-drop-mental-health-bill

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Both bills have their own mental health organizations backing them up, contra Pelosi.

While the new bill from the Democrats comes across as a band-aid approach, and we really do need more beds in psychiatric facilities,  I'm concerned about the involuntary commitment and privacy diminishment in Tim Murphy's bipartisan bill. As I argued when gun laws were being passed by Democratic governors that infringed on patient confidentiality, it's not good to give people reasons not to seek treatment by threatening to take away their rights.

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The US doesn't seem to have a problem identifying the mentally-ill. In fact, it seems we prefer to embellish the rate of psychological problems.

The real problem is that private/public psychologists refuse to register patients on NICS, which allows people like Jared Loughner, who failed a military psyche evaluation, to buy handguns and commit mass murder.

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You can thank Reagan for the gutting of mental health facilities.

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Band-aid approach? More of a reason to hate the Pelosi led Democrats. More of the same from her.

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The US doesn't seem to have a problem identifying the mentally-ill. In fact, it seems we prefer to embellish the rate of psychological problems.

The real problem is that private/public psychologists refuse to register patients on NICS, which allows people like Jared Loughner, who failed a military psyche evaluation, to buy handguns and commit mass murder.

The vast majority of people who fail military psych evaluations do not commit murder.  I'd also venture to guess the vast majority of people who do commit murder have never had a psych evaluation.

You can thank Reagan for the gutting of mental health facilities.

His policies probably contributed, but this is in large measure the result of policies ever since the 1960s when Medicaid at its inception severely limited coverage for psychiatric residential facilities.