End of October 2009 E-Zine

NCMHPC Proudly Presents:

KeepMentalHealthinMind
anE-zineforMentalHealthPolicy&Practice

End of October, 2009

Vol. 1 #10

A joint publication of:

NCMHPC & AMHA-USA

www.TheNationalCoalition.org www.AmericanMentalHealth.com

If you agree with everything in this e-zine you have not read it closely enough

PLEASE READ OUR E-ZINE POLICY STATEMENT HERE

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:

Kaiser Foundation Side by Side Comparison of all Health Care Legislative Proposals - updated
Major Bills
America’s Healthy Future Act – Bachus Bill
HR 3200
Affordable Health Choices Act
Videos
10/01/09 Health Care for America advertisement
10/01/09 Consumers’ Union advertisement
10/15/09 Congressman Mike Rogers’ Opening Statement on Health Care Reform
Updated Health Caucus
News & Opinions
10/01/09 GOP Opposition Goes Beyond Details
10/05/09 Medicare Disadvantage
10/06/09 It's Not Just the Public Option
10/07/09 Spin Doctors for Obamacare
10/07/09 Healthcare Reform for the “party of No”
10/08/09 A dangerous secret to the Baucus health bill
10/08/09 A Better Way to Health Reform
10/10/09 Paying the Health Tax in Massachusetts
10/12/09 Comfortably numb
10/12/09 Insurance Industry Assails Health Care Legislation
10/12/09 Dems scramble after warning from health insurers
10/13/09 At the Table, but on the Menu
10/14/09 Now Comes the Hard Part
10/14/09 The Baucus Bill Is a Tax Bill
10/14/09 Lies, Earmarks And Corruption All In One Bill
10/15/09 Obama Hasn't Closed the Health-Care Sale
10/16/09 Laws of the Universe vs. Obamacare
10/17/09 Why Health Care Is So Expensive in New York
10/17/09 The ABC Dilemma of Health Reform Third-party payment creates a big incentive problem.
10/17/09 Obama -- health insurers 'deceptive and dishonest'
10/19/09 Congress Keeps Gold-Plated Health Care... For Themselves
10/19/09 How Much Obamacare Costs the Average Family
10/19/09 Illegals Are Not "Dying in the Street"
10/19/09 Taking Obamacare Off the Books
10/19/09 The Power of the Plaintiffs' Bar
10/19/09 'Expert Panels' Won't Improve Health Care
10/20/09 What's In and What's Out of Health Care Legislation
10/21/09 The Doctor Fix Is In
10/21/09 Compulsory insurance -- another Trojan Horse
10/21/09 The Public Option Deception
10/22/09 The Public Option Comeback
10/23/09 Medi-Fraud for Everyone
10/24/09 Obama's Doctor Shortage
10/24/09 Obama Taxes Pacemakers, Heart Valves
10/24/09 Bending the cost curve - up
10/25/09 How an Insurance Mandate Could Leave Many Worse Off
10/26/09 Why Government Health Care Keeps Falling in the Polls
10/27/09 Obamacare's False Dawn
10/28/09 Can Obamacare Be Stopped? And if so — how?
10/28/09 Lieberman Steps Up - Opposing Reid's public option gambit.
10/29/09 Doctors on Health-Care Reform
10/29/09 The public option in the real world
10/29/09 Reform' hikes costs for years
10/29/09 Obamacare: Startling New Revelations Scare Public
10/30/09 The Baucus Bill: Obamacare's Budget Bomb
10/30/09 An Obama Halloween Tale
10/31/09 ObamaCare's Scary October Surprise

Things are moving fast!
See UHCAN site for updates

Important Reading:

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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Archive:

January 2009 Vol, 1 #1

February 2009 Vol, 1 #2

September 2009 Vol. 1 #9

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