Clinton proposes plan to address mental health treatment

According to a government study, about 1 in 5 adults – or 43.6 million people – had a mental illness in 2014, with almost 10 million of those experiencing a serious condition, such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. It estimated almost 10 million adults suffered from serious mental illness. But Trump’s stand-ins struggled to do so even as they stayed tightly together on the details they know: Trump will issue more details on the immigration plan soon, the policy will be humane, and despite his clear wavering, he’s been “consistent” on the issue.

In her continued bid to act like this is a regular election season where we talk about actual policy issues, Hillary Clinton released a proposed plan Monday to improve mental health treatment. Almost 1 in 5 veterans returning from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan experienced post-traumatic stress or depression, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Early diagnosis and intervention are the key focal points of the plan, and the Democratic nominee also proposes the creation of a national initiative to prevent suicide.

Nonprofit advocacy group Mental Health America praised Clinton’s plan, calling it “solid” and “comprehensive” and saying it aligned with numerous group’s policy priorities.

Clinton’s campaign released a multi-pronged approach to mental health care on Monday, aimed at ensuring that Americans would no longer separate mental health from physical health in terms of access, care and quality of treatment.

Her statement did not say how much her plans would cost or where the money would come from.

“I hope mental health reform is a keystone of both presidential candidates’ campaigns”, said Murphy, who noted that his bill and Clinton’s proposal have several similarities. Though it would be hard for one candidate’s plan to conform to the preferences of every advocacy group, Clinton’s agenda does parallel numerous essential points made by major organizations.

Clinton’s agenda includes a section dedicated to suicide prevention: a critical area of attention since suicide is the cause of death for more than 40,000 people in the United States each year, The Briefing reported.

“Typically, we’re asking the police to do a job that they’re not trained to do”, he said, noting that police were compensating for what he categorized as a weaknesses in our social safety net in dealing with mentally ill people.

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Clinton’s mental health agenda overlaps some with a plan to address drug and alcohol addiction, which was a focus during her Democratic nominating contest with Sen.

A leading Republican proponent of mental health reform welcomed Clinton’s efforts. Under Clinton’s plan, the U.S. Departments of Labor and Health and Human Services (HHS) would have the authority to conduct “randomized audits” of insurers, have mandatory access to information regarding how companies choose who and what they cover, and manage the system for collecting and evaluating reports of parity violation. The plan calls for training law enforcement officers in “crisis intervention”, as well as “prioritizing treatment over jail for low-level offenders”.