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While advancing freedom
worldwide has become a top foreign policy goal, here at home, millions of Americans face the loss of the most basic freedoms under budget cuts proposed by President George Bush. *
The most devastating of those cuts would slash $60 billion from the Medicaid program, a federal-state healthcare program that serves, among others, those who have low incomes and experience mental illness.
Untreated mental illness robs many people of the most basic aspects of freedom, freedom to participate fully in the community.
Yet the administration’s proposal would rip apart the Medicaid safety net that now provides needed mental health treatment to millions who have no other sources of care, and would expose them to cuts in services or outright denials of care.
For many with mental illness, such a policy choice could result in job loss, school failure, family breakup,
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