Please copy and paste into the forms on the websites of your Senators and share with friends. Encourage them to spread the message. https://www.congress.gov/contact-us
Dear Sen / Rep --
HHS Secretary Kennedy has said that a fragmented health care system has encouraged people with mental illness and addiction to cycle endlessly between sidewalks, emergency room visits, jails and mental hospitals and shelters.
In 1981, when President Reagan cut funding for mental hospitals, he rightly claimed that people would be better served by small, community-based clinics. There was a plan at the time for every community to have one mental health/addiction focused in-patient bed for every 5,000 residents. The Republican Party at the time hailed the plan, then never funded it., so it never happened.
HHS Secretary in the meantime is advancing a vision of abstinence-only recovery, while simultaneously rejecting harm-reduction and housing-first strategies that have been shown to create stability, trust, and sustained engagement in care.
We cannot keep putting band-aids on this problem of a fragmented healthcare system.
Please draft a comprehensive overhaul of our healthcare system that includes adequate services for those with addiction and mental illness. Please make sure everyone has a secure, sheltered place to sleep. The $19 billion annual ICE budget would more than cover the cost.
Get serious about creating the integrated health system this nation needs.
#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #Healthcare
Angela G
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