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From Promise to Reality: Substance Use Disorders and the ACA
Before the Affordable Care Act fully took effect, HHS boasted that the law would foster “one of the largest expansions of … substance use disorder coverage in a generation.” Will that coverage expansion translate into access to care or will barriers prevail?
Should Calif. Be Model for National Mental Health System?
We asked mental health experts and lawmakers how California and the nation should respond to the public debate triggered by the killing of 26 people at an elementary school last month. Senate President Pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg has urged the White House to use California’s mental health system as a national model.
For Mentally Ill, Home Is Where the Health Home Pilot Is
Which grant was buried in the week’s news? Rhode Island won a big award for its health insurance exchange efforts, but a second CMS announcement — that the Ocean State was approved for a Health Home Medicaid project — could have major implications for mental health care.