Title: Hillary’s Mental-Illness Mistake | National Review
Headings: Hillary’s Mental-Illness Mistake
Hillary’s Mental-Illness Mistake
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Content: The new regulations define what mental-health services certain programs have to fund, but inexplicably, leave out hospitalization for the most seriously ill. Plain-vanilla mental health gets funded while serious mental illness is excluded. If Hillary becomes president, this issue is one she will probably have to take on. Congress will soon reconsider the bipartisan Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act. It’s championed by Representative Tim Murphy (R., Pa.) and incorporates ideas from Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson (D., Texas). Like Domenici and Wellstone before them, these two know serious mental illness. Representative Murphy is a psychologist, and Representative Johnson is a former head of psychiatric nursing at a VA hospital. Advertisement
The Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act does what Clinton, when given the chance, refused to do: focus our resources on the most seriously ill. It attempts to replace years of mission creep with a dash of mission control.