Trumpcare eliminates mental health coverage from Medicaid

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

What's really idiotic is that doing this is likely to end up costing the government as a whole more money. Of course, those added costs will end up being paid mainly by State and local governments, so it might save the Federal government a little money.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

What's really idiotic is that doing this is likely to end up costing the government as a whole more money. Of course, those added costs will end up being paid mainly by State and local governments, so it might save the Federal government a little money.

But the states will be the ones deciding whether or not to require mental health coverage, correct?

[courts]

What's really idiotic is that doing this is likely to end up costing the government as a whole more money. Of course, those added costs will end up being paid mainly by State and local governments, so it might save the Federal government a little money.

But the states will be the ones deciding whether or not to require mental health coverage, correct?

i don't think so. but either way this is horrendous.

[MasterJedi]

"Asperger's" isn't a real diagnosis any more and shouldn't have been one in the first place.

I most cordially disagree.

It was an artificial division within the autism spectrum that in practice functioned as a stratification.

Wow, what the hell dude?

Care to make an actual argument to the contrary?

I was diagnosed with Asperger's when I was very young. I'm glad that the diagnosis is autism spectrum disorder now, and I'm much more willing to be open about it than I was before.

I was diagnosed in 1995. I'm not going to start changing the definition I'm personally comfortable with.

Just so you know though according to the DSM 5 and whatever doctor you see that diagnosis no longer exists.

[afleitch]

"Asperger's" isn't a real diagnosis any more and shouldn't have been one in the first place.

I most cordially disagree.

It was an artificial division within the autism spectrum that in practice functioned as a stratification.

Wow, what the hell dude?

Care to make an actual argument to the contrary?

I was diagnosed with Asperger's when I was very young. I'm glad that the diagnosis is autism spectrum disorder now, and I'm much more willing to be open about it than I was before.

I was diagnosed in 1995. I'm not going to start changing the definition I'm personally comfortable with.

Just so you know though according to the DSM 5 and whatever doctor you see that diagnosis no longer exists.

The NHS uses ICD-10 where it remains

[MasterJedi]

"Asperger's" isn't a real diagnosis any more and shouldn't have been one in the first place.

I most cordially disagree.

It was an artificial division within the autism spectrum that in practice functioned as a stratification.

Wow, what the hell dude?

Care to make an actual argument to the contrary?

I was diagnosed with Asperger's when I was very young. I'm glad that the diagnosis is autism spectrum disorder now, and I'm much more willing to be open about it than I was before.

I was diagnosed in 1995. I'm not going to start changing the definition I'm personally comfortable with.

Just so you know though according to the DSM 5 and whatever doctor you see that diagnosis no longer exists.

The NHS uses ICD-10 where it remains

Interesting, but I imagine that's not going to last too long as Asperger's really is just a mild form of Autism. But if you like it that way, I don't really care, whatever floats your boat good sir! lol

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

What's really idiotic is that doing this is likely to end up costing the government as a whole more money. Of course, those added costs will end up being paid mainly by State and local governments, so it might save the Federal government a little money.

But the states will be the ones deciding whether or not to require mental health coverage, correct?

i don't think so. but either way this is horrendous.

My point is that if states could be convinced that mental health coverage is a cost-saving measure for them, then they could still keep coverage.  That isn't to say that they will be easy to convince.

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http://www.behavioral.net/article/policy/behavioral-health-benefits-shift-gop-plan

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

This is pure insanity!

It literally costs more than it will save.

[pbrower2a]

All that I could have wanted with Asperger's is to get away with it -- to have a normal life.

[nclib]

This is pure insanity!

It literally costs more than it will save.

Good to hear a Republican saying that. Conservatism has gotten more and more heartless and hypocritical.