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ing on mental health services, covering critical services including hospital care, outpatient treatment, psychosocial rehabilitation, and prescription drug coverage.
Cuts to Medicaid are not new. .But too often, mental health services are among the first to be slashed. Such cuts have reduced crucial benefits, increased out-of-pocket costs for the poor and near-poor, and restricted access to desperately needed medications.
In urging Congress to savage the Medicaid program, President Bush is retreating from a key goal in his State of the Union Address — to provide “families greater access to good coverage and more control over their health decisions.”
Plainly, the President’s Medicaid policies would have just the opposite effect. New federal policies that make it more difficult for those with mental illness to get needed care and hold employment surely do not advance the “ownership society” and individual liberties this adminis
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