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Dr Tim Murphy: How A Psychologist In Congress Rewired Mental Health Policy
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Send us Fan Mail We sit down with former Congressman and psychologist Tim Murphy to show how mental health laws really get made and why “good ideas” often get changed or stripped before they ever help families. We dig into Medicaid rules, treatment access, psychosis risks, and the hard truth that silence is how broken systems stay in place. • the real path of a bill from idea to compromise to final vote • why mental health policy creates intense conflict between groups • assisted outpatient treatment as an alternative to repeated hospitalization • how “gravely disabled” standards shape who can get care • Medicaid payment rules that discourage psychiatric beds and longer stays • why…