‘Health Reform’ – The Worst Bill Ever

By Joel Skousen, rense

I’m not referring to the 2000 page Health Care Reform bill itself, but the title of a devastating Wall Street Journal editorial written by Steve Moore –a frequent speaker at my brother Mark’s annual Freedom Fest gathering in Las Vegas during July. I don’t have the space to reprint it, but you can find it online here. It is comprehensive in scope and devastating in its logic.
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As for the content of the latest iteration of the Democratic reform bill, I offer this additional update courtesy of the Citizen Commission on Human Rights -a mental health watchdog group. The organization warns that the new Health Care bill is filled with agenda items of the psychology lobby and big pharmaceutical companies. All of these will add billions to health care mandates and ensure that the new reforms require billions in increased fees and taxes.

“The newly-forged 1990-page ‘Affordable Health Care for America Act’ (HR 3962) offered by the House of Representatives is filled with mental health provisions intended to prop up psychiatry as well as the pharmaceutical industry with billions in future income. Key mental health components of this House bill:

“Mothers Act: The bill includes the language to ‘expand treatment for postpartum conditions’ and calls for the development of ‘improved screening and diagnostic techniques,’ but makes no provisions to ensure any entities doing such research are free from conflicts of interest or pharmaceutical funding [which is rampant in the industry]. For example, Screening for Mental Health, Inc., and its sub-organization Signs of Suicide, who heavily promote and conduct mental health screening [but who ironically downplay the direct relationship between psychotropic drugs and suicide], received $4,985,925 from pharmaceutical companies prior to 2008, and ten leading psychiatric researchers have been exposed in the last year for failing to disclose millions of dollars in pharmaceutical payments.

“Mental Health Parity: The bill mandates Mental Health Parity, or equal insurance coverage for mental disorders as what are covered for physical diseases, whether under their regular health insurance or whether a person gets their new coverage through the Health Insurance Exchange. Psychiatric patients are traditionally ‘cured’ when their insurance benefits run out. In this bill, those benefits never run out. Considering there are no medical tests to verify the existence of any psychiatric disorder, and without anything other than a psychiatrist’s opinion about whether or not the person’s ‘illness’ is cured, this legislation becomes nothing more than taxpayer funded billions to the psycho/pharmaceutical industry who will continue their jihad of mass drugging of Americans. This provision could easily encompass all 374 diagnoses in psychiatry’s diagnostic manual, covering everything from Phase of Life Problem to Arithmetic Disorder. Section 214, Page 100

“Home Visitation Programs for Families with Young Children or Families Expecting Children: The bill creates a home visitation program for families with young children or which are expecting children or who have certain ‘risk factors.’ The program provides assessments regarding matters of ‘age appropriate behaviors,’ for children, prevention of family violence and referral to outside services. – Section 1904, Page 1177

“School Based Health Clinics: The bill includes funding for School Based Health Clinics that will include subjective psychiatric mental health screening (called mental health assessments) of children, and ‘referral to a continuum of services including emergency psychiatric care, community support programs, inpatient care, and outpatient programs’ as part of their ‘comprehensive primary health services.’ This is a direct feeder line for the psycho/pharmaceutical industry directly into our schools. – Section 2511, Page 1352

“Wellness Program Grants for small employers: The grants in the bill serve as an incentive for employers to include ‘mental health’ as part of the Wellness Program Grants to businesses. Part of the program entails a ‘Behavioral Change Component’ that encourages ‘healthy living through counseling’ and may include programs relating to ‘tobacco use, obesity, stress management, depression and mental health.’ – Section 112, Page 67

“Federally Qualified Behavioral Health Centers: The bill creates new ‘Federally Qualified Behavioral Health Centers’ and in order for existing community mental health centers to qualify, they have to provide, among other things, ‘mental health screening, assessment, and diagnosis,’ as well as ‘outpatient clinic mental health services, including screening, assessment, diagnosis, psychotherapy and medication,’ in addition to “crisis mental health services including 24-hour mobile crisis teams.’ – Section 2513, Page 1367″

Health Insurance News had this to say about other kinds of mandates the government has in mind–specifically about vaccines. “The Federal Government’s proposed mandatory health insurance will mean mandatory vaccinations/immunizations. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) says that for anyone who refuses to keep up-to-date vaccinations, under the new health reform, you will not be able to obtain any health care you may need until immunizations are current [the same kind of tactic used to force public school children into having immunizations as a condition of enrollment].

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