Senate Health Care Bill Contains $1.25 Billion Gift To Sen. Stabenow

Senate Health Care Bill Contains $1.25 Billion Gift To Sen. Stabenow: Furious Seasons, Philip Dawdy reporting:


"There's been a lot of coverage of amendments to the recently-passed Senate health care reform bill over the last 10 days, especially the Medicare giveaways for the State of Nebraska reportedly employed to capture the support of Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Nebraska) as well as giveaways to other Democratic senators. But one provision of the amendments, which were introduced on December 19, has escaped notice of the mainstream media and the political blogosphere alike. That would be $1.25 billion included in the amendments, apparently to secure the vote of Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow. Sen. Stabenow, a Democrat, was a passionate advocate for the so-called public option who voted to support a bill without a public option in exchange for inclusion of $1.25 billion in new federal spending to support "centers of excellence" in depression treatment."-Philip Dawdy, investigative journalist, Furious Seasons news

We as citizens of the US have failed people if this is how we care for them, creating "centers of excellence", based on little evidence for treatment that works, while allowing the people already in need suffer in the hands of defunct, low budget, and inadequate care facilities, such as the one my daughter is in now and the one that she was residing in before they committed her for skipping a few pills.

I'd be concerned if a family member of mine ended up in one of these new pharma-funded "centers of excellence", one fact will be that the pharmaceutical company's drugs will be the center base of care, and we wonder why depression has been painted as a crisis in this country. It is not a crisis, the crisis is the corruption, and loss of moral compass, the allowance of drug companies to influence health care reform is the crisis.