Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Mental Health & Healthcare Today

One of the most important issues facing America and the world, is how healthcare may be delivered that is up to acceptable standards and affordable. Healthcare in America has been a commodity of the "free-enterprise system" since its inception, and today rocketing costs of caring for those in need have escalated to where it has become a monumental problem.

In few areas of healthcare have the costs risen so dramatically in America as in the care and treatment of mental illness and related industries, such as the pharmaceutical industry. Many Americans find themselves caught up in the cycle of dysfunction where symptoms of mental illness may have incapacitated them and put them at the mercy of social programs and the system itself. The purpose of this blog is to allow for the discussion of these issues and perhaps find some means of resolution in both the individual and social aspect in general.

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