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KeepMentalHealthinMind
anE-zineforMentalHealthPolicy&Practice

End of November, 2009

Vol. 1 #11

A joint publication of:

NCMHPC & AMHA-USA

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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:

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

Things are moving fast!
See UHCAN site for updates

Videos

11/8/09 Protesters tell AMA to support "Patients Not Pelosi!"

11/22/09 Can Health Care Pass With Public Option?

News & Opinions

11/01/09 CBO Rebuts Pros, Cons of Public Option

11/01/09 Pelosi Bill is Anti-Tort reform

11/01/09 The Worst Bill Ever

11/01/09 Obama Strategy on Health Legislation Appears to Pay Off

11/02/09 Obama shepherds health bill

11/02/09 New Health Care Bill Drafted by House of Representatives Filled with Psycho/Pharma Agenda

11/02/09 Pelosi's Machiavellian Conscience: Why the End Does Not Justify the Means

1/02/09 House Republicans Find 111 New 'Bureaucracies' in Health Care Bill

11/03/09 The "Costs" of Medical Care

11/03/09 Behold a Trojan Pony

11/03/09 Health-Care Overhaul IV: This Time It's Personal

11/03/09 Health care reform in the breach

11/04/09 Women and Obamacare

11/04/09 Reid’s Bait and Switch Tactics

11/04/09 What Women Want on Health Care

11/04/09 CBO scores GOP health plan: Lowers Deficits, Lowers Premiums

11/05/09 Temperatures rising on healthcare bill: Pelosi sees win; Republicans demand to see pricetag

11/05/09 The "Costs" of Medical Care: Part III

11/05/09 Is the House healthcare reform bill unconstitutional?

11/05/09 Obama-Pelosi to Health Insurers: Shut Up or We'll Shut You Down

11/05/09 The Coming Shortage of Doctors

11/06/09 Three Strikes against Obamacare

11/06/09 Committee Confirms: Comply With Pelosi-Care Or Go To Jail

11/07/09 What the Pelosi Health-Care Bill Really Says

11/08/09 The 'true' cost of health care reform; $2.6 trillion

11/09/09 The Lords of Entitlement

11/09/09 The Bill to Nowhere

11/10/09 Confessions of an ObamaCare Backer

11/11/09 Lieberman on Public Option Health Care: 'I Have No Other Choice ... I've Got To Stop It'

11/12/09 Goldman To Private Insurers: No Health Care Reform At All Is Best

11/12/09 And a Buried Tort Bomb - A stealth provision that would undermine state damage caps.

11/13/09 ObamaCare Is Not Pro-Choice for Anyone

11/14/09 Defeat Obamacare in Detail

11/15/09 Bill would reduce senior care Medicare cuts approved by House may affect access to providers

11/15/09 My Near Death Panel Experience

11/15/09 The Rationing Commission

11/16/09 Health Care and the Moral Imperative

11/16/09 Report: Health bill would reduce senior care

11/16/09 Obama's Malpractice

11/16/09 Health reform's hidden land mines

11/16/09 Devaluing the dollar by trashing private healthcare

11/16/09 The Rationing Commission

11/18/09 Obama's Health Care Plan Not Out of the Woods Yet

11/18/09 The Onward March Of ObamaCare

11/18/09 The Republican Alternative

11/18/09 Why Tragedy Will Be Result of Dems Rush to Victory on Health Reform

11/18/09 Health 'Reform' Gets a Failing Grade

11/18/09 The $1.9 Trillion Gimmick

11/18/09 Fighting a Coercion Clause

11/18/09 Bending the Health-Care Cost Curve—Upward

11/18/09 The Consequences of “No”

11/19/09 HarryCare is a Rotten Deal

11/19/09 Criminalizing Health-Care Freedom

11/19/09 CBO: Senate’s Public Option Would Enroll 3 or 4 Million People

11/19/09 Senate Health Plan Seeks to Add Coverage to 31 Million

11/19/09 Rationing's First Step

11/19/09 Reid Introduces Senate Health Bill That Mandates Federally Subsidized Abortion

11/19/09 Sen. Reid's Government-Run Health Plan Requires a Monthly Abortion Fee

11/20/09 Senate Health Reform Package Falters, Failing to Include Medicare Recognition of LMHCs

11/21/09 The End of HSAs Harry Reid wants to kill consumer-driven health care.

11/21/09 Krauthammer on Landrieu $100 Million 'Louisiana Purchase' Buyoff: 'It's a New Kind of Business as Usual'

11/23/09 Obamacare: Big State Tax Hikes

11/23/09 Health 'reform' that burdens our young

News & Opinions (continued):

11/24/09 Liberals and Mammography Rationing? What rationing?

11/24/09 Rationing, the Unspeakable, But Honest Solution

11/24/09 States, Consumer Advocates Challenge Rx Data Mining

11/24/09 '60 Minutes' segment shows that suffering is bad business

11/27/09 Kill the Bills. Do Health Reform Right

11/28/09 Mid-wifing Leviathan

11/28/09 Democrats now “all in” on health care reform.

11/29/09 A Modest Public Plan

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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