Barnes: ‘I don’t care about mental health parity.’
By on Oct 3rd, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Barnes: ‘I don’t care about mental health parity.’
Included in the massive $700 billion bailout bill Congress passed and President Bush signed today is a bipartisan mental health parity provision that gives employees the same treatment rights for mental illness as for other physical ailments. “Congress has given hope to the millions of Americans and their families who live with mental illness,” said Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT). But last night on Fox News, the Weekly Standard’s Fred Barnes coldly dismissed the measure, saying “it doesn’t belong” in the bill:
BARNES: I don’t care about the mental health parity, and some of the other things that don’t belong in there. On the other hand, we have a crisis, and we need to do something.
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More details on the Mental Health Parity law here.
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Conservatives are mentally ill.
Finally, they’ll get the help they need…
October 3rd, 2008 at 5:48 pmIf there was mental health parity in the bill, maybe fred barnes could get some much-needed help
October 3rd, 2008 at 5:51 pmBARNES: I don’t care about the mental health parity,
You should , seeing as how yours has been in a life-long coma ……….
October 3rd, 2008 at 5:51 pmFred Barnes and FOX is proof. Denial is a sure symptom.
October 3rd, 2008 at 5:51 pmFred’s mental imbalance is the only reason Fox “News” pays him to appear on the air.
October 3rd, 2008 at 5:53 pmFred’s insurance company will contact him with the great news: You’re covered!
October 3rd, 2008 at 5:55 pmMy youngest daughter has mental health issues and we are so thankful that her employeer allows her to take leave for her extended treatments. One of the many tradegies of mental illness is that most people do not realize that it’s causes are physical in nature making it no different than any other illness. So F you Fred.
October 3rd, 2008 at 5:57 pmsamsuncle Says:
One of the many tradegies of mental illness is that most people do not realize that it’s causes are physical in nature making it no different than any other illness. So F you Fred.
October 3rd, 2008 at 5:57 pm
That’s worth a repeat, samsuncle.
The social stigma against mental illness is abhorrent. No one condemns or shuns someone with cancer or a broken leg.
October 3rd, 2008 at 6:02 pmOregon passed a law like this that went into effect last January. It was long overdue.
Fred Barnes could just as easily have said, “I don’t care about poor people, or sick people or any people but MY people, and we’re all too wealthy to give a damn about the rest of you.”
October 3rd, 2008 at 6:02 pmBarnes doesn’t need mental health care, he’s just dumb. Never showed a flash of brilliance–just a foot soldier inthe Conservative army of spin merchants.
October 3rd, 2008 at 6:10 pmZooey Says: #8
Because most everyone assumes the stereotype and believes that a ‘crazy’ person will pull out a machete will start hacking away at them. This country is so full of indifferent, chickenshit morons.
October 3rd, 2008 at 6:15 pmConservatives do not want to cure mental health. That would erode their fan base.
October 3rd, 2008 at 6:24 pmHEY barnes you do know that they have a burning rubber room waitin for you in hell and a strait jacket made from the skin of rupert murdock at least you will still have daddy doc holdin ya
October 3rd, 2008 at 6:29 pmThe softballs continue to be served up courtesy of Fox.
October 3rd, 2008 at 6:43 pmBarnes is a detestable little rat, but the Pelosi-Reid response to Bush’s ultimatum of destroying the world if the United States failed to give him $1 trillion in small bills, was not to stand up on their hind legs and for once in their truly worthless lives defy the odious little dictator, but rather to add a few riders and then disgustingly champion bush’s extortion as essential to the survival of the country and without which a catastrophe of biblical proportions will befall us. Absolutely no justification for any bailout has been given other than pure fear-mongering since bush made his original threat. Pelosi, Reid, Obama and all the dem leadership have simply reiterated bush’s threats. It’s insane. I applaud those dems and repubs who stood up to the madness and actually listened to their constituents instead of dear leader, the wall street fat cats, or their party ‘leadership’. Pelosi is garbage. And those dems who circle the wagons around this utterly gutless and corrupt leader are to be spit upon.
October 3rd, 2008 at 6:45 pmOhio woman, 90, attempts suicide after foreclosure
October 3rd, 2008 at 6:58 pmReuters – 1 hour ago
CINCINNATI (Reuters) – A 90-year-old Ohio woman, facing eviction from the home she has lived in for 38 years, shot and wounded herself this week, becoming a grim symbol of the US home mortgage crisis.
Rightwing reactionary Murdochian mediawhore Freddy Barnyard is such an insufferable asswipe. What would we ever do without him…?
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October 3rd, 2008 at 7:11 pmBarnes, do you think being schizophrenic, constantly hearing voices, and having hallucinations is not as bad as a sore throat? Or do you think such people are just faking it?
In every other developed country in the world, mental/behavorial, dental, and optometric are always covered. And they spend one-half or less per capita what we spend—including the 47 million Americans who spend zero.
October 3rd, 2008 at 7:45 pmkaty Says:
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Ohio woman, 90, attempts suicide after foreclosure
Reuters – 1 hour ago
CINCINNATI (Reuters) – A 90-year-old Ohio woman, facing eviction from the home she has lived in for 38 years, shot and wounded herself this week, becoming a grim symbol of the US home mortgage crisis.
I wish my taxes went to help people like her.
October 3rd, 2008 at 8:30 pmCongress threatened with Martial Law if they did not vote yes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaG9d_4zij8
October 3rd, 2008 at 11:20 pmThat laugh of Fred’s.
Does Fred Barnes do the voice of Grandpa Simpson?
October 4th, 2008 at 2:03 am