Podcast #68: Supermax, Health Exchanges, Statins, and e-Novels

Here's what we talk about:

• Clink talks about the burning issues in corrections, including a class action suit against a federal control unit prison in Colorado, filed by a civil rights organization.  Allegations include the idea that correctional officers were abusive and that mental health services were inadequate.  You can read more about this in Clink's article here.

Clink provides the following links:

1. For the lawsuit at: http://www.scribd.com/doc/97561358/Bacote-et-al-v-Federal-Bureau-of-Prisons on June 29, 2012.

2. For an article from The Atlantic:  http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/06/an-american-gulag-descending-into-madness-at-supermax/258323/ on June 29, 2012.

• Roy talks about the Supreme Court decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare) and talks about the Mental Health Parity Act and the delay in getting this clarified.  Roy believes there will be increased access to mental health care.   
  

•  Roy talks about Network adequacy and whether providers are actually available.  Here is his link to his article on Health Information Exchanges. 

•  Dinah talks about statins and depression and and reads from Emily Dean's blog on Evolutionary Psychiatry where she discuss statins and depression and violence and cholesterol.  The guinea pig pictured above has a fine lipid profile.

• Dinah  talks about her new novel : Home Inspection.                

        

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Diane Rehm Show: Mental Health Under the Affordable Care Act

I was a guest on today's Diane Rehm Show on National Public Radio, along with Rachel Garfield from the Kaiser Family Foundation, Pamela Hyde from SAMHSA, and Richard Frank, the Harvard health economist.

The topic was about the Accountable Care Act (ACA) and its potential impact on mental health and addiction services.

They already have the recording up, as well as a transcript.

Roy on the Diane Rehm Show Tomorrow and other Shrink Rapper News

Roy will be on the Diane Rehm show tomorrow at 10 AM Eastern Time, do tune in:

"The deadly Colorado shooting underscores the need to better identify, diagnose and treat people with mental illness. Diane and guests will discuss the future of mental health services under the Affordable Care Act."

Guests include Rachel Garfield from the Kaiser Family Foundation, Pamela Hyde from SAMHSA, and Richard Frank, the Harvard health economist. Links to the audio and transcript ARE HERE.

Clink blogs about psychiatry's obligation to be careful in talking about the Aurora shooter here.   


Roy blogs about health care integration here.   He's kind enough to tell us what health care integration is.


And Home Inspection is now on sale for $2.99 on Kindle here.