Health care reform

[hopeworks]

How if any at all do you see health care reform affecting the mental
health system or the lives of those with mental health issues.

[Marina Tonkonogy]

I see it as a double-edged sword. On one hand, this could be a good thing just because many more people would get attention to their emotional pain and trauma. On the other hand, this might not be the kind of attention they need meaning that all that diagnostic labels, drugs, bio-medical model might become just one huge symptom management machine and never address the core issues-life-long adverse or traumatic experiences and socioeconomic stress.