Good evening. Ill go with miss so i dont get anybodys title wrong. If i mispronounce your name, please correct me. Ill be posing questions to candidates and ive arespectingearranged arandom or. Were not going alphabetically and so its as fair as i could make it. Each candidate will get two minutes with the responsiv resp. I want this to be more conversational than debate or attacking whoever is sitting to your left. And i will jump in and kabitz with you and follow up. Theres six of you but it creates a time crunch. Its not unusual for candidates to be on the ballot and bears a moment or two of reflection. Its different from ordinary candidates. Yes, its a contested race but you want Different Things to judge in an elected representative. You want anyone who will only consider the facts in resolving a case, leaving aside a partisan agenda, which is the opposite for political candidates. You want someone who has the character of a judge, not someone who will be a fighter for you but a n
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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
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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