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Quality & Access

PROLOGUE

Ensuring Quality And Access In Mental Health Services

In April 2002 President George W. Bush joined congressional allies on both sides of the aisle to embrace expanded mental health parity legislation. That same month he inaugurated his signature New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. The final report that resulted from the commission’s yearlong fact-finding and consultative process called for fundamental changes in how mental health care is viewed and delivered. Such a concentrated burst of bipartisan attention from the upper echelons of the political food chain sparked renewed hopes that mental health might finally break free from the fetters of societal stigma that helped ensure its relegation to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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