NCMHPC

National Coalition of Mental Health Professionals and Consumers, Inc.


an educational foundation and advocacy organization serving mental health consumers and professionals

 

NCMHPC Proudly Presents:

KeepMentalHealthinMind
an
E-zineforMentalHealthPolicy&Practice

 End of Septermber, 2009 

    Vol. 1 #9

A joint publication of: 

NCMHPC & AMHA-USA       

www.TheNationalCoalition.org           www.AmericanMentalHealth.com          


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Articles are presented in chronological order.   NCMHPC  & AMHA-USA take no stand on any of the materials presented here.  We are just alerting you to what is going on in the media.  Knowledge is power.
Politics & Policy:

Politics & Policy

Kaiser Foundation Side by Side Comparison of all Health Care Legislative Proposals

Major Bills

America’s Healthy Future Act – Bachus Bill

HR 3200

Affordable Health Choices Act

 

Videos

Health On The Hill - September 10, 2009

We’re Number 37

Will Ferrell stands up for the real health care victims

News & Opinions

9/01/09 Bending the Curve: Effective Steps to Address Long-Term Health Care Spending Growth

9/01/09 Dirty Secret No. 4 in Obamacare

9/02/09 The Divisions in the White House Over Health-Care Reform

9/02/09 Systemwide Cost Control — The Missing Link in Health Care Reform

9/03/09 White House's new health care pitch

9/04/09 How to Insure Every American

9/05/09 Remember the Golden Oldies, Dr. Emanuel

9/06/09 Talking Seniors to Death

9/07/09 A More Perfect Death

9/07/09 ObamaCare's brave new world

9/07/09 Obama's Mistakes in Health Care Reform

9/08/09 Why the public option matters

9/08/09 Current Health Reform Proposals: No Government Takeover of American Health Care

9/08/09 Public Ignorance on the Public Option

9/08/09 Obama and the Bureaucratization of Health Care

9/09/09 Palin Sends Written Testimony About Death Panels to NY State Senate

9/09/09 ObamaCare: More Point and Counterpoint

9/09/09 Stop Thinking Insurance

9/10/09 Aim of Obama Health Speech: Reigniting a Presidency

9/10/09 PRESIDENT OBAMA’S HEALTH CARE SPEECH

9/10/09 Health Care, Obama and the System

9/10/09 Obama's Speech Leaves Room For Snowe's Compromise To Put Off Public Option

9/10/09 Union Health-Care Label

9/10/09 Obamacare: First, Do Some Harm — Then, Exploit the Crisis

9/10/09 Joe Wilson’s War -- Team Obama finds a new enemy -- and, perhaps, new momentum

9/10/09 President Obama Steps Forward

9/10/09 Congress Gets Nudge Down a Long Road

9/14/09 Compulsive Disorder

9/14/09 Rebutting Obama's Health Care Speech

9/14/09 What Will Kill Health-Care Reform

9/15/09 Health-Care Reform and the Constitution

9/15/09 45% Of Doctors Would Consider Quitting If Congress Passes Health Care Overhaul

9/16/09 It's Not the Public Option, It's the Public Subsidy

9/16/09 ObamaCare: Insurance Rescission on a National Scale

9/16/09 Grim Prognosis From Doctors Opposed To Health Care Plan

9/16/09 Is Health Care Reform Constitutional?

9/22/09 First Do No Harm

9/23/09 Pelosi leaves Blue Dogs to twist in the wind on health care reform

9/23/09 Poor Substitutes — Why Cooperatives and Triggers Can’t Achieve the Goals of a Public Option

9/24/09 Condition Critical: What Doctors Think About Health Reform

9-25-09 Doubling Down on a Flawed Insurance Model

9-26-09 The Public Option Roach Motel

9-26-09 A sham 'compromise' health care bill waiting in the wings

9/28/09 What's Hiding in the Health-Care Bill Democrats don't want you to know what's in there

9/28/09 You Mislead! Fact-checking Obama.

9/30/09 What Happens If We're Forced To Buy Insurance

9/30/09 Dishonesty, Intimidation, Hypocrisy and Medicare Advantage

9/30/09 Should Government Have E-Record of Every Woman Who's Had an Abortion?

9/30/09 Follow the Money — Controlling Expenditures by Improving Care for Patients Needing Costly Services

 

Things are moving fast!
See
UHCAN site for updates

 

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Practice

9/04/09 Prescribing the prescribed drugs?

9/04/09 HMO claims-rejection rates trigger state investigation (CA)

9/21/09 Privacy experts debate patient consent

  Comment on “Privacy experts debate patient consent”

Dear all, 

John Houston is wrong. Privacy is much more than a “societal value,” it is a fundamental constitutional right, according to the prevailing constitutional case law. The right “to be let alone” is the core concept that underlies our Bill of Rights (the first 10 amendments to the Constitution) The failure of policy-makers to realize this is perhaps the most serious indictment of our educational system and surely our law schools. This why I am a member of the American Constitution Society which is doing its best to provide that education.

 Jim Pyles 

James C. Pyles, Principal

POWERS PYLES SUTTER & VERVILLE PC

1501 M Street NW, Seventh Floor | Washington, DC 20005-1700

tel 202.466.6550 | fax 202.785.1756  

jim.pyles@ppsv.com | www.ppsv.com

 
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Comment on the Political Position 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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Rumor Alert:

·  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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