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School shooting highlights need for more mental health care

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Providing mental health car cost money but probably would be better. Passing more gun laws doesn't cost much but probably wouldn't do much. Given the political corectness of our elected officials and the screaming of the Anti-Gun crowd which do you think will be pushed for?

kermit60
December 19, 2012 9:49 a.m.

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mental illness...he was already labeled autistic! Oh but that is different. No it is not. Call it what you will. If the brain does not function correctly, it is a mental illness. That means the person does not fall into the scope of what is considered normal. He needed treatment period, he didn't get it. You can point finger until you are blue in the face but it will not make a difference. We need to stop coddling our mentally ill and stop integrating them with society. More hospitals and more beds = less burdens on family, society and tax payers. It is cheaper to do that then all this other counseling stuff that doesn't seem to be working.

peppercorns
December 18, 2012 5:38 p.m.

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Throw some money at it.....

working for deadbeats
December 18, 2012 3:48 p.m.

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charm, It's not that easy. I am on Medicaid so it's a little easier, however when I was working, I had health insurance through my job. I was at the mercy of them. I think it was only 10 visits per year with a high copay. I couldn't afford that so I had to do without.

hmbear32
December 18, 2012 12:52 p.m.

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billybob, I'm glad SOMEONE understood that. I didn't know what he was talking about.

The thing with finding other doctors or getting a different health care plan is that many are at the mercy of the VA/Tri-Care because and can't afford to run right out and pick up another plan. Others are doing well to make the premiums on their plans.

PracticalMagick
December 18, 2012 12:28 p.m.

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blue is laffing, get your facts straight. The Democrats are responsible for closing 2 state mental hospitals and replacing them with 1, thus decreasing vital beds and putting that responsibility on local governments. It is good to hear that the triangle area has an entity with walk-in services, but in other areas, qualified help can be hard to find and more costly that in a state hospital bed. Cutting state beds was, in my opinion, a big mistake by the Democrats of years past.

billybob72
December 18, 2012 11:59 a.m.

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even with health insurance and most insurances only allow a certain amt of visits.

hmbear32

Find a better doctor and health care provider.

charmcclainlovesdogs2
December 18, 2012 11:50 a.m.

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charm, because they don't want to believe it's true. their child couldn't do that. their child is fine. nothing is wrong. I am a teacher and I see some kids that if they don't get help soon, they will be doing the same thing. Scary! But we can't really do much about it.

hmbear32
December 18, 2012 11:49 a.m.

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I just don't get it. I have been diagnosed with depression, however, when I go to ER for my real medical issues; asthma, pseudotumor cerebri, they don't think I have anything wrong. They want to blame it all on my depression. Once you have been diagnosed with a MI, that's all the medical prof see. Plus mental health care is so expensive, even with health insurance and most insurances only allow a certain amt of visits.

hmbear32
December 18, 2012 11:46 a.m.

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Sure glad to see this story instead one saying all guns should be taken away. Its not guns that kill but the lunatic holding it.

weasel2
December 18, 2012 11:38 a.m.

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