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Roughly 60 national experts debated the impact of privatization of mental health care in America yesterday at a conference sponsored by the Kennedy School of Government's Center of Health and Human Policy...
...conference, regarded as an innovative integration of medicine and public policy, revealed a framework for a national treatment plan for mental illness...
Researchers also released results from a federal study of corporate ownership and mental health care...
...intended to talk about mental health care in public and private hospitals and the contributions of private care," said Robert A. Dorwart, executive officer of a K-School working group on mental health policy, speaking of the summit...
Called "Privatization of Mental Health Care: A National Perspective," the conference revealed mixed responses to what researchers have called the "megatrend" of privatization. For-profit corporations in 1986 provided 15 percent of all nonfederal psychiatric care, up from 1 percent in 1970, researchers...