Comments: House Health Care Bill Pushes Mental Health Promotion, Nanny State In Workplace
Seriously, this is worse than I feared, and most people reading this piece won't see any thing the matter with it.
What happens if you have a bad attitude at work, try to organize a labor union for example, or have an ethical problem with what the folks at your factory, mortgage company school are doing, or don't want to kneel down or bend over in the boss's office (lots of sexual harassment cases are factually proven to be true) - oh, that's proof you're mentally ill and then you have to get help.
Don't want help, don't think you need it, want to explain why you don't need it, well that thinking you're sane is anosognosia a sign of severe mental illness that alerts your employer you need some of that now affordable mental health care.
Refuse, um, bet you can't get unemployment if you are fired for refusing to participate in the low cost "mental health promotion" program at work, where what happens in your bedroom and who's doing the dishes at home is now your boss's business because psychotherapy is a component of the mental health promotion program that is a mandatory component (for your own good) in that health insurance policy you are legally forced to buy and if you don't participate it will be canceled but you can't let it get canceled because not having it is against the law.
Welcome to the Brave New World (gotta read that book).
Posted by Sally at October 30, 2009 06:16 AM
the govt will make your employer tell you what to do before and after working hours. why? so you will be good little productive comrades, and contribute your fair share. you guys all think this is funny, and that obama's lengthy string of communist mentors, communist ghost-writers, and communist czars is a coincidence; they are all just well-meaning people who want to ... to tell everyone how to run their lives. individuals, businesses, media. etc. enjoy.
Posted by medsvstherapy at October 30, 2009 11:13 AM
That's very overblown. Look at what is written there. The HHS is instructed to compile and distribute "best practices" for a variety of the most effective and efficient care including mental care. Employers currently (large ones) have services like gym discounts, healthy snack machines (yes, companies get to dictate what machines they put in their buildings), voluntary exersize competitions, etc. This is instructing HHS to find out what they are doing and share this information with other companies. Nobody is making anybody do anything, unless your employer decides they want to (or already doing). Most of these "scary" parts are where they define what kinds of health programs HHS should be getting information on.
Posted by Jimmy at October 30, 2009 11:41 AM
I can not believe anyone here would criticize becoming part of the perfect "Borg Collective".
You all must be assimilated to create a better society didn't you know.
It is well documented and undisputed fact that without any rational debate on this matter, "resistance is completely futile".
Welcome to "US" generalization
Posted by Submit-Now at October 30, 2009 12:06 PM
And might I ask who exactly, amongst members of Congress, is going to be the judge of my "good mental health"?
Posted by Evelyn Pringle at November 1, 2009 04:09 AM
Evelyn Pringle,
The Government Death Panels will!! :-)
Posted by Gwen at November 3, 2009 04:00 PM