Mental health and proposed new mandates

Sunday, November 13, 2016

Like other mental health advocates here in Southeast Missouri, I know from long experience that medical care works best when patients and their doctors get to make decisions without outside interference. And that's why I'm worried -- deeply worried -- about some proposed new mandates emanating from Washington, D.C. that would interfere with the ways that some of the most vulnerable patients get needed medical care.

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