I adore you, but eliminating the IMD exclusion would remove the ONE protection mentally ill people have from the state locking them up in institutions long-term.
I love that you're focussing on mental health, but any solution MUST be community based, not institutional. @lajrod
Our country is in a mental health crisis. Too many Americans are silently suffering with no relief in sight. Today, I released my plan to ensure everyone has access to mental health care—whenever you need it and wherever you need it. https://kamalaharris.org/policies/mental-health/ …
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Your proposed changes to HIPPA are horrifying. Doctors can ALREADY disclose treatment information to family IF the doc determines the patient *does not have the capacity to make healthcare decisions*. If they DO have that capacity, they should have the RIGHT to choose who knows.
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Senator Harris, your full policy claims that “HIPAA can pose a barrier” to treatment (see screenshot), and yet when I click on the underlined link, it goes here, to a document that says the exact opposite. https://www.nami.org/About-NAMI/NAMI-News/Understanding-What-HIPAA-Means-for-Mental-Illness …pic.twitter.com/bYKzt6cRlC
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Can you explain why you’re undermining HIPAA protections when the supporting documents you provide suggest that HIPAA is already adequate to the task?
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I'm sorry, but your plan to remake HIPPA opens mentally ill people like me to more abuse from their families. That's a hard no from me.
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AMEN. The entire HIPPA section is horrifying.
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The HIPPA section of the plan you described could be extremely dangerous for victims of domestic violence. I tweeted about some of the ways that could happen here. I hope you'll reconsider this.https://twitter.com/alittleleader/status/1199169199068909569?s=20 …
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And every trans/LGB kid in this religious area, and everyone who's trying to recover from childhood molestation, and everyone whose controlling parents don't want them to leave college, and and and...
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oh my god did she really put in a Google Clause
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