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A few years back this mental health parity caused many HUGE premium rate

hikes in the insurance industry... This has never been acknowledged but

is can be easily plotted.

Psychiatry is not like regular medical practices fixing a bone or a cold

or flu or filling a cavity... it is non ending and it is has never

produced a cure! psychiatrists openly admit they don't know for sure

what is going on in the mind. Big pharma has used this to create a

cash cow that is producing BILLION in revenue.

Some monthly meds for this mental health scam are $200 or more for each

prescription... it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that if you

are paying x amount for coverage ad 2X is going out then rates need to

be adjusted up!

The only results are more addictions and atrocities like columbine, and

others... with no limits set for the amount of treatment this alone

becomes a big huge drain on any medical policy or program.

This is only going to raise the rates even more and it is going to

produce more zombies and addicts than ever before... IT REQUIRES A

SPECIAL call to our legislatures to not allow this to happen. No

results should mean no funding PERIOD!

I am very tired of this constant need to be reminding our government

representatives but _we must continue_! Andale!

Dennis

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/31/mental-health-trojan-horse/

The Washington Times

Mental health Trojan horse

It's enough to

make anyone sick

December 31, 2009

By E. Vatz and

A. Schaler

The vast majority of Americans

are unaware of most of what is included in the Senate and House health care

reform bills as they head for reconciliation in the House-Senate Conference.

They will be in for a big surprise concerning parity mental health care

coverage, covering mental problems comparably to physical problems. In

addition, the arguments supporting the changes, rarely made public in order to

avoid rigorous debate, have revealed the shifting grounds supporting parity.

Health and Human Services

Secretary Kathleen Sebelius spoke on Dec. 16 to a friendly crowd of health care

providers and others at Sheppard Pratt Health System near Baltimore, a location

for a broad array of psychiatric services, concerning mental health coverage,

and, according to reports, she defended the expansion of such coverage with all

of the familiar shibboleths.

She argued, consistent with

the administration's claim that expanding health care in general to 30 million

or more citizens would actually save us money, that the vastly increased mental

health parity program would additionally, as the Baltimore Sun reported her

message, " improve care for millions of Americans who do not get all the

mental health services they need. "

In the speech, Ms. Sebelius

said, " One in 5 Americans will have a mental health illness this year and

almost half will have a mental illness in their lifetimes. Yet 10 million

people didn't get the mental health care they needed last year, and 20 million

didn't get substance abuse services. "

Ms. Sebelius proclaimed her

own false analogy of mental health to physical health by saying, " If 10

[million] or 20 million Americans were walking around bleeding, we'd have alarm

bells going off. "

But if mental heath

professions' own estimates of the current number of people who are mentally ill

are correct, Ms. Sebelius is way off in her calculations. As Mark Twain

quipped, " There are lies, damned lies and statistics. "

The American Psychiatric

Association (APA) claims that more than 50 percent of Americans are mentally

ill in their lifetime - and recent APA studies dwarf that statistic. Moreover,

the problems that qualify as " mental disorders, " all those listed in

the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV), are

virtually without limit.

Significantly, the new coverage

of mental illness covers a vast array of the " worried well, " who have

no neurological or mental disorders but simply have problems in living. Support

for mental health parity in the new health reform bills relies on the public's

false inference that the prototypical mental disorder is dementia or some other

organically based brain disease, which constitute only a tiny percentage and

atypical sampling of the hundreds of " mental disorders " listed in

DSM-IV.

Typically, psychiatrists

label those unhappy people they concede have no physical illness as having

" social anxiety disorder " or some other equally benign

" disorder. " Such people can be in costly, insurance-covered therapy

indefinitely. As one psychologist told us, " Anyone who comes in with any

problem can be diagnosed as having 'adjustment disorder.' " (e.g.,

" with anxiety, " DSM-IV Code 309.24).

There are many such diagnoses

of easily applicable disorders, including " antisocial personality

disorder " (DSM-IV Code 301.7), " avoidant personality disorder "

(DSM-IV Code 301.82), and others vague enough to be applied to almost anyone.

This is one of the reasons that the American Psychiatric Association claims

that in a lifetime far more than a majority of citizens will suffer from a

mental disorder, and the estimates are increasing.

In the December 2008 APA's

Archives of General Psychiatry, there is a report that " almost half of

college-aged individuals had a psychiatric disorder in the past year [emphasis

added], " and this includes heavy drinking, categorized as " alcohol

use disorder " (DSM-IV Code 305.00).

When everyone is sick, what

is normal? " What is healthy? "

On one strategy to deal with

these issues, perhaps Ms. Sebelius and mental health skeptics can agree: It is

high time to let a national debate begin - before mental health parity becomes

part of universal national health care insurance.

E. Vatz, a professor at Towson University, is associate psychology editor of

USA Today Magazine. A. Schaler, a professor at American University, is

executive editor of Current Psychology and author of " Addiction Is a

Choice " (Open Court Publishing Co., 1999).

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[Guest guest]

A few years back this mental health parity caused many HUGE premium rate

hikes in the insurance industry... This has never been acknowledged but

is can be easily plotted.

Psychiatry is not like regular medical practices fixing a bone or a cold

or flu or filling a cavity... it is non ending and it is has never

produced a cure! psychiatrists openly admit they don't know for sure

what is going on in the mind. Big pharma has used this to create a

cash cow that is producing BILLION in revenue.

Some monthly meds for this mental health scam are $200 or more for each

prescription... it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that if you

are paying x amount for coverage ad 2X is going out then rates need to

be adjusted up!

The only results are more addictions and atrocities like columbine, and

others... with no limits set for the amount of treatment this alone

becomes a big huge drain on any medical policy or program.

This is only going to raise the rates even more and it is going to

produce more zombies and addicts than ever before... IT REQUIRES A

SPECIAL call to our legislatures to not allow this to happen. No

results should mean no funding PERIOD!

I am very tired of this constant need to be reminding our government

representatives but _we must continue_! Andale!

Dennis

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/31/mental-health-trojan-horse/

The Washington Times

Mental health Trojan horse

It's enough to

make anyone sick

December 31, 2009

By E. Vatz and

A. Schaler

The vast majority of Americans

are unaware of most of what is included in the Senate and House health care

reform bills as they head for reconciliation in the House-Senate Conference.

They will be in for a big surprise concerning parity mental health care

coverage, covering mental problems comparably to physical problems. In

addition, the arguments supporting the changes, rarely made public in order to

avoid rigorous debate, have revealed the shifting grounds supporting parity.

Health and Human Services

Secretary Kathleen Sebelius spoke on Dec. 16 to a friendly crowd of health care

providers and others at Sheppard Pratt Health System near Baltimore, a location

for a broad array of psychiatric services, concerning mental health coverage,

and, according to reports, she defended the expansion of such coverage with all

of the familiar shibboleths.

She argued, consistent with

the administration's claim that expanding health care in general to 30 million

or more citizens would actually save us money, that the vastly increased mental

health parity program would additionally, as the Baltimore Sun reported her

message, " improve care for millions of Americans who do not get all the

mental health services they need. "

In the speech, Ms. Sebelius

said, " One in 5 Americans will have a mental health illness this year and

almost half will have a mental illness in their lifetimes. Yet 10 million

people didn't get the mental health care they needed last year, and 20 million

didn't get substance abuse services. "

Ms. Sebelius proclaimed her

own false analogy of mental health to physical health by saying, " If 10

[million] or 20 million Americans were walking around bleeding, we'd have alarm

bells going off. "

But if mental heath

professions' own estimates of the current number of people who are mentally ill

are correct, Ms. Sebelius is way off in her calculations. As Mark Twain

quipped, " There are lies, damned lies and statistics. "

The American Psychiatric

Association (APA) claims that more than 50 percent of Americans are mentally

ill in their lifetime - and recent APA studies dwarf that statistic. Moreover,

the problems that qualify as " mental disorders, " all those listed in

the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV), are

virtually without limit.

Significantly, the new coverage

of mental illness covers a vast array of the " worried well, " who have

no neurological or mental disorders but simply have problems in living. Support

for mental health parity in the new health reform bills relies on the public's

false inference that the prototypical mental disorder is dementia or some other

organically based brain disease, which constitute only a tiny percentage and

atypical sampling of the hundreds of " mental disorders " listed in

DSM-IV.

Typically, psychiatrists

label those unhappy people they concede have no physical illness as having

" social anxiety disorder " or some other equally benign

" disorder. " Such people can be in costly, insurance-covered therapy

indefinitely. As one psychologist told us, " Anyone who comes in with any

problem can be diagnosed as having 'adjustment disorder.' " (e.g.,

" with anxiety, " DSM-IV Code 309.24).

There are many such diagnoses

of easily applicable disorders, including " antisocial personality

disorder " (DSM-IV Code 301.7), " avoidant personality disorder "

(DSM-IV Code 301.82), and others vague enough to be applied to almost anyone.

This is one of the reasons that the American Psychiatric Association claims

that in a lifetime far more than a majority of citizens will suffer from a

mental disorder, and the estimates are increasing.

In the December 2008 APA's

Archives of General Psychiatry, there is a report that " almost half of

college-aged individuals had a psychiatric disorder in the past year [emphasis

added], " and this includes heavy drinking, categorized as " alcohol

use disorder " (DSM-IV Code 305.00).

When everyone is sick, what

is normal? " What is healthy? "

On one strategy to deal with

these issues, perhaps Ms. Sebelius and mental health skeptics can agree: It is

high time to let a national debate begin - before mental health parity becomes

part of universal national health care insurance.

E. Vatz, a professor at Towson University, is associate psychology editor of

USA Today Magazine. A. Schaler, a professor at American University, is

executive editor of Current Psychology and author of " Addiction Is a

Choice " (Open Court Publishing Co., 1999).

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