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Recent Trends, Challenges and Issues in Funding Public Mental Health Services in the US
March 2002

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October 2001

 

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daily link  Thursday, October 31, 2002


Horizon back on the horizon for MHC (Wisconsin)
Green Bay News-Chronicle story - "The Brown County Human Services Committee unanimously agreed to allow Texas-based Horizon Mental Health Management 60 days to decide whether it can privatize the county's mental-health care."  
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State To Stop Paying For Uninsured Mentally Ill (Massachusetts)
WCVB story - "The state of Massachusetts will no longer pay for the roughly 200 uninsured Department of Mental Health clients who are hospitalized every year with severe mental problems. Private hospitals which are legally bound to provide treatment in critical situations will have to pick up the cost." See also the related story in the Boston Globe, State cuts payments to hospitals.  
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Task force to assess region's drug woes (Connecticut)
Norwich Bulletin story on the establishment of a task force to assess the drug situation and propose solutions - "...part of the reaction to stories the Hartford Courant recently published on the scope of heroin use in town. As many as 300 addicts live in Windham."  
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