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The Mental Health Maze: Some Progress, Many Pitfalls

ON THE DAY IN APRIL 2002 that presidential candidate George W. Bush heralded his intentions to create a commission on improving the way mental health services are delivered, Sen. Pete V. Domenici, a Republican who has long been a strong advocate for people with mental illnesses, was at his side in New Mexico. Bush asserted: "Americans with mental illness...deserve excellent care. They deserve a health system that treats their illnesses with the same urgency as a physical illness." Fifteen months later, when the final report of the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health was released, the event lacked . . . [Full Text of this Article]

John K. Iglehart, Founding Editor

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