New House Health Care Bill Contains MOTHERS Act and Other Dangerous Psych Programs

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New House Health Care Bill Contains MOTHERS Act and Other Dangerous
Posted by: "Amy Philo" [e-mail] amyphilo
Thu Nov 5, 2009 7:01 am (PST)



Reps Should Remove Dangerous Psycho-Pharma Agenda From House Health Bill
New House Health Care Bill Contains MOTHERS Act and Other Dangerous Psych Programs

Here is a link to a printable PDF to sign, address and fax to your representative: http://www.box.net/shared/g66igsuuvx
If you do not have a PDF reader installed you can download this Word document: http://www.box.net/shared/131md0mxdo

Re: The MOTHERS Act – If you also wish to fax in information on that bill specifically, the PDF is here: http://www.box.net/shared/810kj0b8g7

To find your Representative and get their contact information, go to http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt to look them up (you need to enter your zip code). You can also call the U.S. Capitol Switchboard at [phone].------------------------------------------------

New Health Care Bill Drafted by House of Representatives Filled with Psycho/Pharma Industry Agenda
Information: The newly-forged 1990-page “Affordable
Health Care for America Act” (HR 3962) offered by the House of
Representatives is filled with mental health provisions intended to
prop up psychiatry as well as the pharmaceutical industry with billions
in future income. Key mental health components of this House bill:

MOTHERS Act
The bill includes the language of the MOTHERS Act, to “expand treatment
for postpartum conditions” and calls for the development of “improved
screening and diagnostic techniques,” but makes no provisions to ensure
any entities doing such research are free from conflicts of interest or
pharmaceutical funding. For example, Screening for Mental Health,
Inc., and its sub-organization Signs of Suicide, who heavily promote
and conduct mental health screening, received $4,985,925 from
pharmaceutical companies prior to 2008, and ten leading psychiatric researchers have been exposed in the last year for failing to disclose millions of
dollars in pharmaceutical payments. Yet this bill contains no
provisions for full disclosure of conflicts of interest for any
“entity” that could receive federal taxpayer funded grants, do research
or promotional campaigns – such as the provision in the bill calling
for a national PR campaign using TV, radio public and other public
service announcements to urge women be screened and seek treatment for
postpartum depression. The bill also calls for “clinical research” for
the development of new treatments (drugs), but again, no guidelines for
ensuring that any researchers/research entities are free from
pharmaceutical funding or conflicts of interest. Section 2529, Page 1418

Mental Health Parity
The bill mandates Mental Health Parity, or equal insurance coverage for
mental disorders as what are covered for physical diseases, whether
under their regular health insurance or whether a person gets their new
coverage through the Health Insurance Exchange. Psychiatric patients
are traditionally “cured” when their insurance benefits run out. In
this bill, those benefits never run out. Considering there are no
medical tests to verify the existence of any psychiatric disorder, and
without anything other than a psychiatrist’s opinion about whether or
not the person’s “illness” is “cured,” this legislation becomes nothing
more than taxpayer funded billions to the psycho/pharmaceutical
industry who will continue their jihad of mass drugging of Americans.
This provision could easily encompass all 374 diagnoses in psychiatry’s
diagnostic manual, covering everything from Phase of Life Problem to Arithmetic Disorder. Section 214, Page 100

Home Visitation Programs for Families with Young Children or Families Expecting Children
The bill creates a home visitation program for families with young
children or which are expecting children or who have certain “risk
factors.” The program provides assessments regarding matters of “age
appropriate behaviors,” for children, prevention of family violence and
referral to outside services. – Section 1904, Page 1177

School Based Health Clinics
The bill includes funding for School Based Health Clinics that will
include subjective psychiatric mental health screening (called mental
health assessments) of children, and “referral to a continuum of
services including emergency psychiatric care, community support
programs, inpatient care, and outpatient programs” as part of their
“comprehensive primary health services.” This is a direct feeder line
for the psycho/pharmaceutical industry directly into our schools. –
Section 2511, Page 1352

Wellness Program Grants for small employers
The grants in the bill serve as an incentive for employers to include
“mental health” as part of the Wellness Program Grants to businesses.
Part of the program entails a “Behavioral Change Component” that
encourages “healthy living through counseling” and may include programs
relating to “tobacco use, obesity, stress management, depression and
mental health.” – Section 112, Page 67

Federally Qualified Behavioral Health Centers
The bill creates new “Federally Qualified Behavioral Health Centers”
and in order for existing community mental health centers to qualify,
they have to provide, among other things, “mental health screening,
assessment, and diagnosis,” as well as “outpatient clinic mental health
services, including screening, assessment, diagnosis, psychotherapy and
medication,” in addition to “crisis mental health services including
24-hour mobile crisis teams.” - Section 2513, Page 1367

Your voice needs to be heard in Washington on this outrageous bill.
Call, fax, or email your Representative and tell them that you are
opposed to the above points in the Health Care Reform bill. To find
your Representative and get their contact information, go to http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt to look them up (you need to enter your zip code). You can also call the U.S. Capitol Switchboard at [phone].
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Sincerely,
Amy Philo
214-705-0169 home
817-793-8028 cell

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