Current Events
National Activities/Information
Current Events
- Affordable Health Care for America - US House of Representatives Proposed Health Care Reform Bill (10/30/09)
- Advancing National Health Reform: A Briefing by the Mental Health and Substance Use Care Communities to the US House of Representatives Staff Briefing - September 9, 2009
- National Health Reform is Essential for Persons with Mental and Substance Use Conditions (Ron Manderscheid)
- Improving Mental Health Care Access and Quality (Kristen Beronio)
- Improving Substance Use Care Access and Quality (Mady Chalk)
- The Mental Health and Substance Use Fields Support National Health Reform (Eric Goplerud)
- Op/Ed - Ellen Grant: Mental Health, Addiction Services Must Fit Into Reform (September 6, 2009) Buffalo News
- New ACHMA Research Interest Group and Result Highlights From Initial Membership Survey
Jennifer L. Magnabosco, PhD (January 12,2009)
ACMHA Update on the Whole Health Campaign; by Eric Goplerud, PhD (January 12, 2009) - Whole Health Campaign Letter to Obama Transition Team (January 12, 2009)
- Whole Health Campaign Proposal to the Transition Team on Integrated Health Care (December 31, 2008)
- Presidential Candidates on Healthcare Reform - CAHI Report (August 2007)
- Presidential Candidates Mental Health Positions - Early Research from ACMHA and The Carter Center (January 2007)
- State Universal Insurance Initiatives - Mental Health America (May 2007)
- ACMHA Members Testify at Congressional Hearing on Parity (March 27, 2007)
- Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiciton Equity Act of 2007 - Brief Summary
- Mental Health Weekly, Volume 17, Issue 12
Exclusive Conference Report: ACMHA Santa Fe Summit
Whole Health Campaign National Health Reform Policy Papers
Since Thanksgiving 2008, the Whole Health Campaign has been working with the Obama Health Reform Transition Team and key Congressional staff to promote the inclusion of mental and addictive health in national health reform. As part of this work, the Campaign has produced eight policy papers to be used with Hill Staff around the core features of reform. These eight papers cover:
- Universal Health Insurance Coverage
- Payment Reform
- Financing of Reform
- Access to Care
- Service Integration
- Public Health and Wellness
- Workforce Needs
- Leadership Needs
We encourage ACMHA members to use these documents to familiarize themselves with key reform issues and to translate that knowledge into positive actions to promote reform.
The Whole Health Campaign has also produced three documents relative to "recommendations for including mental illness and substance use disorer prevention, treatment,rehabilitation, and recovery in national health care reform."
- Reforming the Health Care Delivery System
- Benefit Design and the Delivery of Care
- Wellness Promotion and Chonic Disease Prevention Initiatives
Health Care Reform Bills (PDF files)
- Senate Finance Committee Health Care Reform Bill, Draft Language - America's Healthy Future Act of 2009 (October 21, 2009)
- Senate Finance Chairman's Mark - America's Healthy Future Act of 2009 (October 21, 2009)