Title: Hillary’s Mental-Illness Mistake | National Review
Headings: Hillary’s Mental-Illness Mistake
Hillary’s Mental-Illness Mistake
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Hillary’s task force created a Working Group on Mental Health headed by Tipper Gore, wife of Vice President Al Gore, who had a degree in psychology, suffered from depression, and had strong connections to Mental Health America. Mental Health America is not focused on helping the most seriously mentally ill. It is a trade association with the very expansive agenda of “helping all Americans achieve wellness by living mentally healthier lives.” The key issue facing the task force was whether government funds should be used to “help all Americans live mentally healthier lives,” or be limited to helping those who are so severely mentally ill that they genuinely need government aid. This is still a key issue today. It is the seriously ill, not the worried-well, who are overcrowding our jails and shelters and living a hellish existence encased in psychotic delusions. RELATED: Federal Mental-Health Policy Needs Reform Now
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The working group rounded up all the usual mental-health trade associations and naturally concluded that the national plan should cover all mental-health services for everyone. This bloated the cost and increased projected premiums for Hillary’s proposed health-care plan by $275 a year per person. That stopped the idea of including expansive mental-health coverage in its tracks.