Barack Obama’s Campaign of Transforming and Modernizing America’s Health Care System:
The mental health care system is broken and needs to be transformed and modernized in order to meet societal needs. Everyone has mental or emotional episodes. It might be due to a trauma, the death of a loved one, anxiety, tremendous stress or some other factor. Some people's mental and emotional reactions to such events cause symptoms diagnosed as serious mental health disorder such as schizophrenia or posttraumatic stress disorder.
If you need help or need help for somebody you love and care for DO NOT call 911 or the Suicide Prevention Hotline. Avoid emergency rooms and hospitals. Avoid psychiatrists that are affiliated with a hospital or are controlled by pharmaceutical companies. You or your loved one will get trapped in a mental health care system that is simply wrong, abusive, and brutal. This system ignores all patients’ rights and violates the Constitution of America.
What to do if you need help:
1) Call a friend
2) Contact Mindfreedom International, Monterey County Affiliate 1 (831) 277-1351 (monterey@mindfreedom.org)
3) Contact the Mental Health Care Abuse & Patients’ Rights support group (831)277-1351 (mbas@att.net)
Suicide Prevention Hotline:
The suicide prevention hotline is very eager to get the police involved and get people into the abuse and broken mental health care system. The patient gets arrested and has zero rights. You don’t get counseling from the suicide prevention hotline.
911 (Law Enforcement)
Most law enforcement departments don’t know how to deal with people in a mental crisis. The officers have no counseling training or mental health training. They treat people with mental problems like felons. If you are lucky you will get arrested, you will be sedated without consent and transported to the nearest abusive mental health care facility. If you are unlucky, you will be killed.
Emergency Room and Hospital: Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula
On arrival you will be automatically diagnosed with a mental disorder. A psychiatrist may make that decision on pure speculation without even talking to you. You instantly lose all your rights. Patients’ rights don’t apply to mental patients. If you refuse to cooperate, you may be restrained, denied food and water for days and threatened with additional imprisonment. If you refuse treatment, CHOMP will forcefully drug you, perform unnecessary and invasive procedures in order to maximize their profits. You will be forced to swallow harmful medications with severe side effects or they will be injected into you.
After you get finally released, take a look at your medical file. You will be very surprised. Most of it will be false information. Statements you made will be taken out of context and discussions about treatment options and medication side effects that never occurred will be said to have happened.
As an organizer for SEIU's Change that Works Campaign, I am working on building a network of community members who will engage in the Health Care Reform conversation here in Grand Forks.
I'm interested in hearing your take on one of the principles essential to successful Health Care Reform
#1: Ensuring Patient Choice of providers.
Do you have a story about your experiencs during a change in HMO or Health Insurer? Do you understand what needs to happen to ensure that there are no gaps in coverage or access to doctors?
I personally have attained health coverage through three different insurance companies over the past five years. Fortunately, I haven't felt like I needed to go to a doctor during the times that I was uninsured, with one exception. (A dog bite forced me into the ER when I lacked health insurance.) I'm not sure how I would have got through that situation had the dog's owner not had homeowner's insurance to pay for my lost wages and my hospital bills. I suggest you avoid breaking up fights between dogs, in general, although I was worried that my dog was going to seriously harm the other dog (who bit me while I was pulling my dog off him.) For those of you who are wondering: my dog was on leash, the other dog had dug under a fence and escaped its yard.
Since I haven't had a regular doctor for so long, I really don't know what it would be like to have a family doctor forever and then need to find a new doctor because of a change in HMO policy. What kind of complications arise? I'm interested to hear from you if you've ever found yourself in those circumstances.
Regards,
Aaron Quaday
Grand Forks Organizer -- Change that Works
aquadaynodak0470@gmail.com
As a practicing physician for a large "non-profit" Northeast Ohio Hospital System, I frequently participated in an increasingly tragic situation: Social Workers employed by my hospital would call me and tell me that I had to discharge patients from the hospital because their insurance company decided that they would no longer pay for their hospitalization.
And I was forced to do it!
On occasion the Chief Medical Officer for the hospital or the Social Work Department Supervisor would call me into their office to "discuss" the financial repercussions of not complying with the insurance companies' demands. One of our hospitals would not even accept Medicaid patients to specific units because they knew that the hospital would not be reimbursed for the patient's bill. Everyone that I have discussed this crisis with has agreed that it is has been worsening over the past eight years. So this is my first professional crisis, and my reason #1 that Eight is Enough!
