SPOTLIGHT: U.S. spends $9B on child mental illness

Tipper Gore just wrote an exclusive piece for takepart.com on the state of mental health care in America. Insurance companies have long discriminated against individuals suffering from mental disorders, making it difficult for children and adults alike to seek treatment. Here's what Mrs. Gore had to say:

“Therein lies the injustice we live with in our society, a basic injustice that is rooted in stigma, and nourished by misunderstanding and fear of the illnesses of the human brain - and until recently with the passage of the Mental Health Parity Act - perpetuated by an insurance industry that refused to provide anything but paltry benefits for mental health illnesses."

You can read the rest at takepart.com
-Travis

It sounds as if whatever they've put into the water and air, is finally come back to bite them in the you know what! The spoken of they, would be the government. It's hard to believe this one would pay out $9 billion for anything as important as child mental health issues.