Bush established the New Freedom Commission (NFC) by executive order

[ElsewheresDaughter]

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/052705Pringle/052705pringle.html

Bush's Texas Two-Step: TeenScreen and TAMP

By Evelyn Pringle

May 27, 2005—On April 29, 2002, George W. Bush established the New Freedom Commission (NFC) by executive order. While speaking in New Mexico on that date, he said mental health centers and hospitals, homeless shelters, the justice and school systems have contact with individuals suffering from mental disorders but that too many Americans fall through the cracks of the current system and so he created the commission to ensure "that the cracks are closed."

On July 22, 2003, the NFC recommended redesigning the mental health systems in all 50 states. Its press release stated, "Achieving this goal will require greater engagement and education of first line health care providers—primary care practitioners—and a greater focus on mental health care in institutions such as schools, child welfare programs, and the criminal and juvenile justice systems. The goal is integrated care that can screen, identify, and respond to problems early."

Two of the so-called model programs that Bush wants to establish in all 50 states are TeenScreen and TMAP (Texas Medication Algorithm Project). The truth is, this whole New Freedom facade is nothing more than an elaborate profiteering scheme involving the Bush administration, local government officials, and the pharmaceutical industry to increase the market for the sale of expensive psychiatric drugs.

In a nutshell, this is how it works. First the TMAP was invented to open the door for the pharmaceutical industry to widen its market with potential customers in state institutions. And then TeenScreen was a follow-up invention to open the doors to the nation's public school system.

There's no doubt that TeenScreen's widespread testing in schools will recruit hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of new customers for the drugs it promotes. Now that its got Bush's permission, all TeenScreen has to do is refer the 52 million students to shrinks who will prescribe the most expensive drugs on the market, with much of the funding to cover the cost of the drugs coming from tax dollars funneled through Medicaid and other government funded programs

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[LiberalEsto]

1. Copying the USSR

Anyone with politically incorrect ideas will be sent to a government-run looney bin and kept on heavy medications for life (unless there's a regime change).

[Tyler Durden]

2. MORE reasons to leave the country.

[Minstrel Boy]

3. "New Freedom" leaves a bad aftertaste.

I want "Freedom Classic."

[undergroundpanther]

4. Bush is a monster

I dunno why people aren't"storming the bastille"?

[EST]

5. And of course they can be free to determine precisely

what the correct thoughts should be for these teens, giving them the authority to brand the ones who do not conform to the proper paradigm as being "nuts." (My use of the term is not intended to be disparaging-I'm sure big brother would choose a polite "healthy forests" euphemism.)

That brand will, of course, follow that person for the rest of his/her life unless rescinded by, naturally, big brudder. Some powerful influence, indeed!
Enter: The Thought Police (Choose your own euphemism)