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Finance & Value

PROLOGUE

Finance And Value In Mental Health Care

Public acknowledgment of fragmentation as the fundamental problem in the financing and organization of U.S. mental health care was the signature accomplishment of the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, which issued its final report in July 2003 after a year of intensive study and deliberation. Despite the commission’s admirable initiative, though, mental health has not sustained a prominent place on either the administration’s or Congress’s policy agenda. The problems documented by the commission remain just as obscure to the public—other than those who deal with mental illness firsthand, be they patients, providers, families, or those whose needs are . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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