When the house gavels back in, watch live coverage here on cspan. Back now to the white house summit on Mental Health. What i would like to do for a few minutes. Lets start with you. In terms of the imd exclusion that they express concerns if we live the imd exclusion we open the door to institutionalization of thousands of people. Do you have comments about that . It will not open the Door Community treatment will always be cheaper and government will always will be a cheaper option if it is effective. But then go back to snakepit conditions of the past of one flew over the cuckoos nest but it is the lack of money for hospitals that created substandard conditions allowing them more money that is truly therapeutic. And to have the panelist speak about the continuum of services that are needed to support the seriously mental ill. What do you see as a continuum of care what happens if you dont have those kinds of services . But these fights over scraps so now we are worried about inpatie
Why is in crisis half of the description clicks because 11 million americans upwards of 4 million are receiving no treatment to their lives lost to psychosis untreated serious Mental Illness represents a huge and unnecessary loss of human potential. It also makes our more dire social mission such as random acts of violence and sheltered homelessness Substance Abuse, and the disturbing rise of the rate of suicide i want to emphasize these problems are exacerbated not by serious Mental Illness but exacerbated by serious Mental Illness. Todays historic conversation draws broadly on the expertise of people from many disciplines and experiences and perspectives our goal is to put on the table a robust set of reforms how we go about delivering treatment to persons with serious Mental Illness. The Trump Administration has already begun the process of rebuilding our treatment system this very week the president will sign fiscal year 2020 appropriations bill that makes important in the improvem
Finance committee will come to order today across Insurance Companies are excelling Mental Health coverage to our people worried about their Mental Health or that their loved ones. Unfortunately too often after these insurers take big premiums from our people. They let them down. The providers they advertise arent available. They can get appointments. The firm basically says we arent taking new patients which of course we not represented to theminitially in that way. The fact is these americans are being off e by what the government accounting process as described as a goat network. Not my language, the of accountability. The, was a Ghost Network is all about is essentially selling Health Coverage under false pretenses. Because the providers who can advertise avarent picking up the phone. They arent seeing patients in business product or service doesnt meet expectations consumers get a refund. In my view is a breach of contract for Insurance Companies to sell their plans for thousands
Help . We could hone in on that question and see what the federal government can do to improve our ability to determine who needs help and our ability to identify the person or agency whose job it is to provide the help, and then we will have provided some service. It helps to put a face on who needs help. As a former governor, i look at things from my background and perspective, as i know most of us do. About 22 of tennesseeans reported having a Mental Illness last year. That is more than 1 Million People. This is according to our state department of Mental Health. About 5 had a severe Mental Illness. That is nearly 250,000 tennesseeans. That is a lot of people. About 40,000 had a major depressive episode. The funding that helps meet the needs for that comes in some part from the federal government. About 22 of what tennessee spends, im told, is federal dollars. The rest is state dollars. In Community Services, state appropriations are about 70 of the Mental Health fund. While the Sta
I will answer your initial question if i could and i will turn it back to ed. First of all, on speaking to the m. T. I. s at lackland, a lot of people have spoken to them. Ed, of course, the leadership and the team have all talked to them. The individuals that you talked to might not have been there. The number one i took away with the meetings with them is that those people, and the passion they have for this problem they feel the way i do. Thats our air force. Our military ought to be leading this effort. We have a structure, we have the ability to command, control, educate, and oversee, we have the ability to punish. We all the tools in place to be the role models for this. We owe the American People for that. General, please, time has expired. Please finish that answer for the record. Mr. Nugent. Thank you, mr. Chairman. My big concern, having been a sheriff and prosecuted and investigated Sexual Assault cases is the victimization. How do we deal with those victims and in particula