Another (personal) reason we desperately need MORE health care reform

[Lamplighter]

Though I really did intend this to be a political thread not an ibby bitches thread!

Just from a political point of view...

I've long believed the biggest hurdle for mental health treatment is,
in part, that we have politically separated "mental health" from
"physical health", just as we separate "dentistry" from "medicine".
Maybe mental health is a hold-over from olden days of voodoo
and religion, versus s blood soaked, broken-bone mentality.

A simple, yet inexplicable, example is the staffing of emergency rooms,
where dentists of the community are not on-call and do not participate.

This was what so impressed me when John Edwards first
proposed an all inclusive model for a national health care plan.
He actually included mental health in with traditional health services.

IMO, health care should be just what it says, "health care"...

and if a person has a "health" problem it should be included in the health service,
not smoke-stacked away into hierarchies of covered vs not covered,
and available vs not-available services.