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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 happ ....
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 s ....
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 fals ....
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 ....