Wednesday, November 13, 2013

New ACA Mental Health Regulations Tied to Gun Control...




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Though President Obama said he was “sorry” that more than 4.2 million Americans have had their health insurance policies cancelled due to his signature health law, that did not stop him from instituting additional regulations and mandates for services in ObamaCare, this time for mental health and substance abuse.
On Friday, the Obama administration announced new rules that place mental health and substance abuse services on par with medical and surgical benefits.
The rules, which will apply to almost all forms of health insurance, will likely have far-reaching consequences, states the New York Times, as they are critical to Obama’s program for preventing gun violence, i.e., his belief that more availability of mental health treatment will reduce gun violence. In issuing the new health insurance regulations, the administration said it will have acted on all 23 executive actions that Obama announced earlier this year to reduce gun crime following the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut last December.
Despite Obama’s belief that if Americans are taxed enough to pay for mental health and substance abuse services for all there will be less gun violence, mental health experts have stated that such a law would not have prevented the Newtown shooting or other similar shootings.
In October, psychiatrist J. Michael Bostwick, M.D. of the Mayo Clinic noted that the vast majority of people who perform mass shootings are not mentally ill; that the majority of mentally ill people are not dangerous; and that taking guns away from the mentally ill will not eliminate mass shootings.
According to the Washington Times, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, standing alongside former first lady Rosalynn Carter, said in Atlanta that the new rules were the end result of a generation-long effort to ensure that millions of Americans with behavioral problems get the same care as physically ill patients.

2 comments:

Woodsterman (Odie) said...

The Second Amendment is his enemy.

James Butler said...

As history has showed, arm citizenry is a conceived danger to Marxists, fascists and other tyrannical monsters... Hey how else cowards go after the producers of their society, women and children...