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Commentary: No Child Left Unmedicated

Written By: Phyllis Schlafly
Published In: Health Care News
Publication Date: March 1, 2005
Publisher: The Heartland Institute

Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceutical firms are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs.

Like most liberal, big-spending ideas, this one was slipped into the law under cover of soft semantics. Its genesis was the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health (NFCMH), created by President George W. Bush in 2002.

The NFCMH recommends "routine and comprehensive" testing and mental health screening for every child in America, including preschoolers. Bush has instructed 25 federal agencies to develop a plan to implement the commission's recommendations.

The NFCMH proposes utilizing electronic medical records for mental health interrogation of both children and adults, to search for mental illnesses in school and during routine physical exams. The NFCMH also recommends integrating electronic health records and personal health information systems.

http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=16574

Since when is * liberal? Let me guess, anything they like is good and conservative and anything bad is liberal? Yeah, dats da ticket.