Hi...As the survivor of 'Post Partum depression' myself I would like to ask why they are so concerned with 'education' and why they just don't take steps to prevent excessive stress on fragile women who have just given birth by providing them with...a. someone to watch the baby while they sleep! b. someone to do the laundry and deal with the other kids c. a sufficient stay in a 'place of rest' ie not a suburban home, for their bodies and minds to recover a bit....Many women from other cultures are shocked by the way that Western women have to cope after labour and delivery...no support, no help and now the rest of society will be monitoring them to make sure they're not as crazy as they look!!

Well as a survivor of postpartum psychosis and then as a survivor of psychiatric "help", I'll do my best to answer you...

If I thought that this bill was going to actually result in more support... like, say, someone coming to your house to cook and do laundry while you care for your newborn... I might support it. But it's pretty obvious that these screening tests lead to more diagnosis, and the only thing that's offered is therapy and drugs. Mainly drugs. Bad news. Due to my experiences, I really want psychiatry the hell out of my life and I don't think what we need is more perfectly healthy, overwhelmed women entered the mental health system and getting drugged into disability.

Nice how this works. I have been expecting this. When you can't get a bill passed on its own, just wrap it into another. They tried this last year with the omnibus. Not surprising at all. To understand the legislation as it was most recently presented prior to this new development, go here:
http://uniteforlife.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/new-fax-campaign/

Take action by going here:
http://uniteforlife.wordpress.com/coalition-action-page/

This language looks pretty much identical to the most troubling parts of the bill.

My biggest problem with this is that we are drugging women during their childbearing years at alarming rates as it is. And it's the babies who suffer & die from this the most.

Nice how this works. I have been expecting this. When you can't get a bill passed on its own, just wrap it into another. They tried this last year with the omnibus. Not surprising at all. To understand the legislation as it was most recently presented prior to this new development, go here:
http://uniteforlife.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/new-fax-campaign/

Take action by going here:
http://uniteforlife.wordpress.com/coalition-action-page/

This language looks pretty much identical to the most troubling parts of the bill.

My biggest problem with this is that we are drugging women during their childbearing years at alarming rates as it is. And it's the babies who suffer & die from this the most.

What a coincidence. Just yesterday I was wondering what was going on with the Mothers Act being I hadn't heard anything about it in a while.

That said, I definitely was not under any delusion that this 8 year profiteering scheme had ended.

However, being GlaxoSmithKline recently lost the first Paxil birth defect jury trial (with 600 more cases pending), I had thought, or I should say hoped, that Big Pharma might have decided to quit funding this disease mongering campaign.

Evil never really stops; they just change the marketing strategy, repackage the product, re-shuffle the deck, funnel more cash around to the powers that be, and keep on trucking.

This really is a Pharmaceutical Utopian bill; first diagnosis depression and get mothers on drugs. Then once their children show any signs of normal human developmental behaviors. They can say "look over here, we have a pill that can fix your child too".

It's the perfect storm cycle of a pharma addicted society.

Pretty soon we have a perfectly drugged up family unit living the Great American Nightmare; willing to do anything their told without all that nasty self determination, questioning, and a document called the "Constitution" standing in the way.

If you were wondering how all those secret meetings with PhARMA in the oval office played out.

Here's your answer in something called "Health Care Reform" the Nanny State Version.

Disclaimer; I truly believe we need health care reform in America. As a Great Nation and World Leader; I tend to believe affordable health care should be readily available to all citizens of this country. I happen to disagree in how both major parties and the White House have gone about trying to make this happen.

...someone coming to your house to cook and do laundry while you care for your newborn...

This is offered in some European countries, hand-in-hand with low-intervention, midwife-attended birth. (Can't remember where exactly; it was in Marsden Wagner's book _Born in the U.S.A._) That probably makes it a socialist practice.

I find our nation's celebration of its own backwardness truly appalling sometimes.

Let's not forget that the Mothers Act is the spring board to reel in customers for the new cottage industry called, "Reproductive Psychiatry."

They even have "sad daddies" targeted as customers.

We've got social workers running treatment centers and reeling in customers on the internet by use of their support of the Mothers Act and websites with pop quizzes to take online.

I've been investigating mental illness screening programs funded by Big Pharma since 2004. But this one takes the cake because it's aimed at infants still in the womb and nursing babies.

It's so sick that it's almost unbelievable.

The rejection of the public option by the Senate is very sad. There is a very large demographic of people that are being overlooked right now, and a public option would benefit them.
Eva Mor author of (Making the Golden Years Golden) responded beautifully to a key part of the problem:
“The administration of the existing health delivery system is bloated with waste and unnecessary cost. If information was shared by all providers of health services and all insurers by using computerized systems to store all medical records, it would cut costs and reduce errors that would save and improve lives.” http://www.ourblook.com/component/option,com_sectionex/Itemid,200076/id,8/view,category/#catid107
To regulate costs in the medical industry and update the existing Information and communication technologies would certainly cut a large portion of spending, which has featured as primary complaint in this debate all along.
I hope that when the two bills come together to be voted on the public option may make its way back into the bill.