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New US Federal Budget Proposal Cuts Medicare by $560 Billion, Increases Military Spending
It was reported in all the major news sources this morning that the Bush administration would cut roughly $560 billion from Medicare (the medical insurance system for the elderly and disabled people in the country) over the next decade but...
U.S. Health System Is a 'mess' Says NIH Ethics Expert
A leading ethicist at the National Institutes of Health this week stated that the U.S. health care system is "a dysfunctional mess" and politicians who insist otherwise look ignorant. "If a politician declares that the U.S. has the best health...
Virginia Children with Schizophrenia Will No Longer Need to Be Placed in Foster Care to Receive Services
In many states, including Virginia, parents of children with severe neurobiological brain disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, severe depression, and others, have often had an anguishing decision to make in order to get their children the care they needed....
States Turn to Pharma to Help Lower Drug Costs
Today's New York Times has an interesting article on the struggle that the states are having to lower their drug costs for medicaid programs. It notes that "Many states, looking to rein in the cost of expensive antipsychotic drugs like...
National Institute of Mental Health, 2008 Research and Budget Cuts
The following is an excerpt from a capital hill House Appropriations Committee hearing on the funding of major US mental health initiatives in the president's proposed 2008 budget. The discussion covers important funding issues (what programs are being cut), new...
Schizophrenia Drug Studies: One Size Does Not Fit All; Community Services Also Needed
The following is from a press release from NAMI. The American Journal of Psychiatry today published two studies representing the most recent installment of the "Clinical Antipsychotic Trials of Intervention Effectiveness" (CATIE) funded by the National Institute of Mental Health...
Bristol-Myers Settles in Pricing and Ethics Scandals
The Independent (London) reported this week that Bristol-Myers Squibb pays $499 Million fine to settle mis-selling charges. The UK Paper stated: Bristol-Myers Squibb, the drug company which fired its chief executive in September after a string of ethics scandals, will...
Foster Care as a Last Resort to Obtain Psychiatric Treatment for One's Children
Loving parents, desperate to get children the same level of care for severe psychiatric disorders as they could have received for other severe medical illnesses, are often forced to make the ultimate sacrifice - giving the children up to state...
Older Medication May be More Cost-effective for Some People who Have Schizophrenia
A new study analyzing the economic implications of the Clinical Antipsychotic Trials of Intervention Effectiveness (CATIE) concludes that the older (first generation) antipsychotic medication perphenazine was less expensive and no less effective than the newer (second generation) medications used in...
Study Suggests Newer Drugs not Better than Older Drugs
A new study, funded by the British government and published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, is the first to compare treatment results from a broad range of older antipsychotic drugs against results from newer ones. The study was requested...
Schizophrenia in the Top Four Most Expensive Conditions for Medicaid
The USA's hospital bill totaled more than $790 billion in 2004, according to a new report by the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). The bill represents the total amount charged for 39 million hospital stays that year. Medicaid's top...
TeenScreen - Some States Order Psychological Tests In Schools
The suicide rate for individuals under 20 years old is 2.14 per 100,000, and 1 in every 12 high school students attempts to harm him/herself every year. These are statistics being outlined in defense of psychological testing in schools. Some...
Mental Health Challenges in Florida
Excerpt from a report by the newspaper "The Ledger" (Lakeland, FL) Facing Invisible Demons; Resources are few for many area poor with mental illnesses. By: ROBIN WILLIAMS ADAMS The Ledger Greg Popwell, an unemployed truck driver, was saved from a...
Greater Need, Less Help - Alabama
If you live in Alabama, the message is very clear: don't get sick. Birmingham News reported this week that demand for mental health services is climbing quickly, but resources are being cut significantly. In a story titled "No room for...
Mentally Ill hurt by new Medicare Changes
News from the Washington Post suggests that the Mentally ill are being signficantly harmed by new Medicare plan changes. Some prescription denials have heightened distress The Washington Post story states: Even among the incident reports crossing Craig Knoll's desk weekly...
Medicare Prescription Drug Information
We're a little behind on this announcement - but here it is: Leading mental health organizations have joined together to create a central resource on Medicare’s new prescription drug benefit. The new website, www.mentalhealthpartd.org, contains easy-to-understand, top-line information tailored specifically...
U.S. Gives Florida a Sweeping Right to Curb Medicaid
The New York Times reported today that there are likely to be some major new changes that further limit and reduce the amount spent for medical treatment of the country's poorest citizens (which frequently includes those with brain disorders such...
Budget Cuts Hurting those with Brain Disorders
Rocky mountain news, in Denver, Colorado reports that in that state the people with brain disorders are seeing serious cuts to their programs. As is usually the case this is extremly short sighted, and the people they prematurely take out...
CATIE News & Commentary
The results from the CATIE study that were made public the other day (see CATIE STUDY RESULTS) are provoking a great deal of discussion and analysis in the world of people impacted by schizophrenia - as it well should. The...
Testimony Urges Congress to Stop Medicaid Cuts
Robert Sheehan, chief executive of a community mental health center in Michigan and a member of the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare, testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on September 8, 2005. He made a powerful appeal...
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