December 2009 E-Zine

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KeepMentalHealthinMind
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End of December, 2009

Vol. 1 #12

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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:

For colleagues who find it helpful to use the Kaiser Family Foundation side-by-side comparisons, the newest one, incorporating the revised Senate bill, is now online.

Interesting Timeline

A History of Overhauling Health Care Nearly 100 years of legislative milestones and defeats.

News & Opinions

12/01/09 More Red Flags from Senate Healthcare Reform
12/02/09 The Real Death Panels
12/02/09 Committing HarryCare
12/03/09 Dr. Dean's Admitted Socialism
12/03/09 She Who Must Be Obeyed
12/04/09 Cannibalizing America
12/04/09 Health Reform Could Harm Medicaid Patients
12/04/09 Senate's Progress on Health Care Bill Grinds to Halt Over Democratic Divisions
12/06/09 Health Care’s Coming Heart Attack A Pre-Obama Care Death Panel?
12/07/09 Obamacare Is Bad Medicine|
12/08/09A White House Power Grab that Congress and America Doesn't See
12/09/09 Obama directs $600M to health centers, med records
12/09/09 Finding the Nerve to Cut Health Costs
12/09/09 Olympia Snowe Is Right
12/11/09 High Premiums in Senate Democrats' Health Plan
12/12/09 Not Dead Yet Reports of the public option's death are greatly exaggerated.
12/13/09 The 'Cost Control' Bill of Goods
12/15/09 Healthcare: The poisoned chalice
12/15/09 Senate Health Care Bill Would Force Some Middle Class Families to Pay $15,200 Yearly Insurance Fee, According to CBO Analysis
12/16/09 Senate's Solution: Consumer Choice Is Dead on Arrival
12/17/09 Health-care bill wouldn't bring real reform
12/17/09 The Health Bill Is Scary
12/18/09 Behind the Curtain: Why AARP Supports ObamaCare
12/19/09 Readers question Dems' motives on health care
12/19/09 How Obamacare Will Hurt Young People
12/19/09 The Ugly Truth about the Insurance Mandate
12/20/09 Change Nobody Believes In
12/20/09 Merry Christmas, from Harry
12/21/09 From Awful to Worse Harry Reid's medical malpractice.
12/22/09 Legislating Discrimination
12/22/09 NYT (updated) Comparing the Health Care Proposals
12/22/09 Parties Stay United as Health Bill Clears Steps in Senate
12/22/09 O Come O Come, Emanuel
12/22/09 Maximum Achievable Damage
12/22/09 Harry Reid slips in a bombshell for Obamacare foes
12/22/09 The Process of Passing Health Care
12/22/09 Sebelius: Yes, you will pay for abortions under Nelson's deal, like it or not.
12/22/09 Can Obama Open His Mouth Without Lying About Health Care?
12/22/09 Nation’s Largest RN Organization Says Healthcare Bill Cedes Too Much to Insurance Industry
12/23/09 Obamacare Slaps $15,000 Annual Fee on Middle Class Families
12/23/09 The Three-Step Plan to Stop Nationalized Health Care
12/23/09 The Communists Behind Obama’s Health Care Goals
12/23/09 Harry Reid Turns Insurance Into a Public Utility
12/23/09 An Inglorious End to the Promise of Reform
12/24/09 The House, Senate and You: A New Guide to Health Reform
12/24/09 Day One: How Obamacare Will Alienate Americans
12/24/09 The Real Price of the Senate Health Bill
12/24/09 What Doctors and Patients Have to Lose Under ObamaCare
12/24/09 Markets, Not Mandates
12/24/09 A Peculiar Concept of Freedom

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News & Opinions (continued from previous column)

12/24/09 Obamacare a pallbearer for American freedom?
12/24/09 Rude awakening for naive Left about big government
12/25/09 10 Lumps Of Coal In The Health Care Bill
12/26/09 The Next Step on Health Reform
12/26/09 The Senate Postmortem
12/26/09 When Legislation Goes Into Overtime
12/26/09 Insurers Brace for Sweeping Changes to Industry Landscape
12/27/09 Why the Personal Mandate to Buy Health Insurance Is Unprecedented and Unconstitutional
12/27/09 States With Expanded Health Coverage Fight Bill
12/28/09 Dreaming of Repeal
12/28/09 Like Mushrooms, Health Care 'Reform' Flourishes in the Dark
12/28/09 Ten New Reasons Why Obamacare Can Still Be Killed
12/29/09 Unhealthy Arrogance
12/30/09 Washington Knows Best
12/31/09 Yes, Someone Has To Pay for Health Care
12/31/09 Senator Nelson Defends His Health Care Vote

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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