The data collected through documents of nonprofit organizations increased demand and a rising number of uninsured. States general fund match U.S. dollars shifted their mental health for Medicaid. And now the state wants to cover the uninsured are ailing. This leaves many people with treatable mental illnesses in our overburdened emergency rooms without access to services, initiate, process and able to work again.
As the demand for mental health and substance abuse designed the cover must be maintained and further developed. It is important that we get the guarantee of Medicaid coverage for low-income Americans with disabilities. Trade parity should be assumed to follow the parity of health insurance must, and if we accept what research tells us – that addiction is a chronic need, recurrent conditions, ongoing monitoring and management, such as diabetes, asthma, and yes, how mental illness – then we must act. We must lead the fight to restore the eligibility for social security disability for people with addictions.
We deny our taxpayers productive economy. We lose lives. We need to introduce and defend a federal source of funding, the cost of mental health and addiction treatment to cover the insured. The Community Mental Health Service Improvement Act begins to address our workforce crisis, but it is only a beginning.
We can not stand by our brightest are plastic surgeons and investment bankers. Qualified personnel require adequate compensation. We need to be attractive to leaders who reflect the diversity of our communities. And we can not allow people to wait with severe mental illness or addiction problems for weeks and months for an appointment with a psychiatrist. We need clear and forceful advocate for the reimbursement of the costs of salaries, attract and retain qualified support staff.
If we really want to reduce the gap between science and service, we need to invest in textbooks and planning to stop grants to start and in the organizations to invest the conversion provision of services.
We must preserve, strengthen, and expand mental health and the ability to treat an addiction in our country. But it was not and will not be easy.
We are part of a health system that reflects the American belief in the market. A health system that talks about universal coverage, but hates taxes. A health system that is resistant to control against the costs, based on disease and prevention services, even though they have shown little evidence of savings. A health system such as the promotion of “medical homes” as the strategy of cost reduction in recent confuse a strategy to improve the quality of care by one that saves money.
But we know something about saving money. The pioneering studies tell us that there were significant differences in health expenditure in a region of our country to another, irrespective of the outcome of health care. If the whole nation could reduce its costs in order to meet the expenditure reduction regions, we would cut 20 to 30 percent reduction in health care in America account. Most of the difference in spending for hospital care. The hospital, inpatient psychiatric care is an important measure that should be available, but in many communities, we can do better.
