Human Rights Concerns with the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act of 2015
Congressional Rep. Tim Murphy (R., PA) originally introduced the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act (H.R.3717) in 2013. Not to be outdone by H.R.6 the 21st Century Cures Act, he has reintroduced it to this year’s Congress as H.R.2646 the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act of 2015.
Rep. Murphy is a psychologist, and a staunch supporter of “mental health care” as defined by the psychiatric and psychological industries; not to mention the pharmaceutical and insurance industries.
Official Title of the Act: “To make available needed psychiatric, psychological, and supportive services for individuals with mental illness and families in mental health crisis, and for other purposes.”
The Act creates a new position in the Department of Health and Human Services – an official to be known as the Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders. (As if we need another bureaucracy in the psych industry.)
The Act creates more funding for psych-based “treatments.”
The Act expands the bureaucracy surrounding “parity in mental health and substance use disorder benefits” under Medicare and Medicaid.
The Act provides for grants in early childhood intervention and treatment programs, and specialized preschool and elementary school programs.
The Act provides for grants in “Assisted Outpatient Treatment” programs.
The Act requires states to have a law that enforces court-ordered involuntary mental health treatment for the “mentally disabled” if the state want to receive certain federal funding.
The Act expands mental health training for primary care physicians.
This isn’t even half of the proposed legislation.
The Act spends lots more money on “suicide prevention” all up and down the entire educational chain, from elementary school through college.
The Act establishes an entirely new bureaucracy called the “Interagency Serious Mental Illness Coordinating Committee.”
Of course, the Act also expands the availability of and insurance coverage for psychiatric prescription drugs, as well as lifting limits on Medicare payments for inpatient psychiatric hospital services.
The Act expands the Community Mental Health Care programs.
The Act increases funding for the National Institute of Mental Health.
And even that’s not all the Act does to strengthen the already fraudulent and abusive psychiatric mental health industry.
CCHR Supporters should really consider contacting their Congressmen to express their opinions about this affront to rationality.
Let us know when you contact your Congressmen about this, and any response you may receive.