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A law hindering treatment for severe mental illness must be repealed


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At a time when movements for equity and social justice have captivated the nation’s attention and galvanized activists, one of the most ongoing and notorious forms of discrimination in this country remains enshrined in federal law.
Since 1965, a provision that denies vulnerable Americans with severe mental illness equal access to medically necessary health care services has been embedded within Medicaid’s enabling legislation. 
The so-called Institutions for Mental Diseases (IMD) exclusion is not some nuance of the law, but open and flagrant federally sanctioned discrimination in plain view of lawmakers and the public.
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Here’s how this law works: The exclusion prevents federal Medicaid funds from covering inpatient services in a psychiatric facility with more than 16 beds, unless states and facilities meet specific requirements for waivers or utilize other mechanisms that allow for payment. It bars Medicaid enrollees with “ ....

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Forty years after her death, a look back the decades-long battles of Winnipeg 'cat lady' Bertha Rand


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She stood in the doorway, frowning, with a black cat tucked over her arm and five others flopped down beneath the shade of a tree in the front yard of her house on Queen Street in St. James. In the backyard, a few kittens mewed as they lay in the sun. Inside, 15 sets of paws awaited their guardian’s return.
A sign on the front door asked in capital letters that agents and pedlars skip over the house, and a large board propped against the tree, just past a picket fence spanned by chicken wire, reiterated the message. ....

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