Word: mental
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...basic benefits package guaranteed to all Americans will be more generous than most people's current coverage. It will probably cover mental health, dental benefits, hospitalization, outpatient care, doctor visits, annual checkups, prescription drugs, prenatal care, preventive medicine such as mammograms and more. While the details are still somewhat vague, most patients are likely to pay a low fee for each service, while the health plan picks up the balance. All medical care will be budgeted; then doctors and other providers can determine prices to make the budget work...
...mind-body connection, much loved by New Agers, has won a bit more credibility: doctors have demonstrated that a nervous-system chemical can affect immune-system cells and thus, presumably, the body's response to disease. The brain is part of the nervous system, indicating a plausible link between mental state and health...
Patricia A. Erb, a union member and staff assistant in the Mental Health Department at UHS, says that the going is slow at times. "Some managers, I think, are very open," she says, "while others sort of not their heads and then do whatever they want. It's like a creaking, old rusty machine...
...Black mental-health workers say the trouble is that virtually all the progress the U.S. has made toward racial fairness has been in one direction. To be accepted by whites, blacks have to become more like them, while many whites have not changed their attitudes at all. Study after study has shown that the majority of whites, for all the commitment to equality they espouse, still consider blacks to be inferior, undesirable and dangerous. "Even though race relations have changed for the better, people maintain those old stereotypes," says Powell-Hopson. "The same racial dynamics occur in an integrated environment...
...tumble school" of movie-making. Boetticher described his most difficult project, his documentary on Carlos Arruza, a Mexican bullfighter. The picture took ten years to make, during which time his crew was nearly killed, his subject died, his wife left him and he was imprisoned in a Mexican mental institution...