Archive for October, 2011
11 Points for Mental Health Care Reform
Due to a greater understanding of how many Americans living with mental illness and addictive disorders and how expensive of total health expenditures are for this group, we have reached a turning point in respect to health care reform. We understand the importance of addressing the health needs of people with severe mental illness and respond to the needs of behavioral health of all Americans. This is creating a number of exciting opportunities for community mental health organizations and a series of unprecedented challenges of mental health in the U.S. are determined to [...] Read more
Why Health Care Reform Could Leave Us All Worse Off
Health accounts
care reform is being debated in Congress threatens to exclude millions of immigrants. However, the exclusionary policies of the Congress towards immigrants will not only immigrants worse. That will inevitably affect the economy and health of us all.
President Obama has given priority to health care reform to ensure that millions of Americans have a fair system of health care affordable and efficient. For immigrants, this view is far from a reality. First, the current health care reform bill is unfair to legal immigrants. People who have waited years to reach the Un[...] Read more