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Important Reading: |
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7/28/09 The Kaiser Family Foundation
issued several new resources related to the national
debate about comprehensive health reform: |
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These resources are available through the
Foundation's health reform gateway page at
http://healthreform.kff.org/, a centralized source
for key information and analysis about national health
reform efforts now being considered by Congress. The
gateway also includes original policy and public-opinion
research, columns from Kaiser President Drew Altman, and
relevant news summaries produced by Kaiser Health News,
an editorially independent health policy news service
established by the Foundation. |
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Ongoing
Commentary: |
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Comment
on the Political Positions of NCMHPC
The NCMHPC
has endorsed and will continue to endorse legislation
that promotes mental health and substance abuse care.
Although the NCMHPC does not endorse any specific method
of delivery of care or paying for care, for example, we
have endorsed legislation that provides for government
expenditures for care. We will continue to support
mental health legislation when the provisions do not
undermine choice, quality, access, and privacy.
William A.
MacGillivray, PhD, ABPP
President, National Coalition of Mental Health
Professionals and Consumers
7 Forest Court, Knoxville, TN 37919 |
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For Professionals: |
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Ken Pope has created a
web page to help professionals to find volunteer
opportunities that best fit the professional's
interests, values, and available time. |
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Rumor Alert: |
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Too
often
practitioners learn of coming changes only by chance.
Anthem – CA Blue Cross may be planning, as
of Jan 2010, to manage all out patient mental health
services. The word is they will only authorize 12
sessions to any provider (in or out of network), after
which, providers will have to submit treatment plans. |
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