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...current U.S. health care spending is devoted to the treatment of mental disorders. Federal lawmakers may soon change that. Following the lead of many states, the U.S. House of Representatives in March passed legislation that would require equal health insurance coverage for mental and physical illnesses, when policies offer coverage for both. "Mental illness and drug addiction are every bit as real and serious as physical illness," said Congressman Joe Courtney, a Democrat from Connecticut, of his vote in favor of the bill. "And by providing intervention and early treatment we may be able to prevent more serious and costly...
...this will mean reassurance as worrisome symptoms turn out to be nothing at all. "Normal is the new frontier," says Mony de Leon, director of the Center for Brain Health at New York University Tisch Hospital. And for those who do drift beyond that frontier, the same research may offer new hope for treatments and even cures...
...kind of thing I have seen "work" throughout my nearly 40-year career as a journalist, an era that coincided neatly with the rise of consultant-driven flummery: you could fool most of the people most of the time. For nearly 30 years, the Republican offer of tax breaks had trumped the Democratic offer of responsible budgeting, with the ironic exception of Bill Clinton's presidency. And while that offer still might work in a general election, it did not in the May 6 Democratic primaries...
...general election - and a robust series of debates. Mark McKinnon, a McCain adviser who has said he would rather recuse himself than help his candidate against Obama, has suggested that the two candidates campaign together, staging Lincoln-Douglas-style debates across the country - a proposal similar to the offer that Kennedy reportedly wanted to make if he ran against Barry Goldwater...
...market globalization model promoted by the United States. Even more conservative leaders, such as Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, appeared to side with the leftists leaders, with whom he is normally at odds, in criticizing the values and priorities of the United States. Arias criticized the United States's offer of $1 billion in food aid as insufficient compared to the amount it spends on war in Iraq. "Their actions are wrong because their values are wrong," Arias said...