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To receive reimbursement from Medicaid or other third party insurers, persons rendering mental health services must establish that a child has a psychiatric or psychological disorder listed in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (4th Edition). As a part of the transition to allow Medicaid reimbursement for "treating" a child with a reading problem, the definition for "medical problems" had to be broadened. The American Psychiatric Association Diagnosis Statistical Manual (DSM IV) was revised dramatically. The number of codes for psychiatric "ailments" used for insurance purposes was increased from less than 50 to almost 350. Basically, "mental disorder" was redefined to include what once would have been considered variations in ability or talent like "has difficulty in reading or math--or "growing up" behaviors such as "talking back" or "breaking up with girl or boy friend."(1)
Since Medicaid rules require a code designation from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, every child billed through Medicaid will have a mental disability code permanently assigned to his medical record. The Pennsylvania legislative committee's report said:
This diagnosis of a psychiatric or psychological disorder becomes a part of the child's record with potentially adverse consequences for that child in the future as far as employment.(2)In Pennsylvania, some psychiatrists and psychologists protested the Medicaid-financed in-school "mental health" services. They claimed that unqualified teachers and counselors were practicing medicine and making what could be questionable and dangerous diagnoses. Rohrer said:
The potential for this disability designation haunting the child throughout his future is frightening. One current example is that children labeled, sometimes fraudulently, with the mental disorder designation of ADD or ADHD and who are placed on Ritalin or equivalent and receive the drugs through age 12 are already being denied entrance into the military.(3)Similar concerns that notations in school records could jeopardize a child's future were raised by North Dakota Labor Commissioner Craig Hagen when he resigned from his state's School-to-Work management agency. He said:
North Dakota's STW plan calls for developing career portfolios for each pupil "containing notations of skills, hobbies, talents, and personal goals, as well as records of work experiences, inter and extra curricula activities, training programs and significant accomplishments. The state is to train teachers in implementing portfolios, which will be "sources of information for future employers." Essentially, these all-inclusive files will follow an individual throughout life. (See Chapter 7)The STW portfolio system Hagen mentioned is to be stored ultimately in an electronic file available for access by prospective employers. Hagen said, "Kids make lots of mistakes growing up and maturing. These mistakes don't need to be recorded to haunt them the rest of their lives." This is particularly dangerous when designations of "mental disorder" are made so schools can be reimbursed for treating a reading problem. Hagen added that permanent records should only contain objective material and not subjective judgments made by teachers or counselors at some point during twelve years of schooling. Genevieve Young, who investigated the problem for the Center on Exempt Organization Responsibility confirmed the problem. She said:
Children can now be labeled in permanent records for life, with physical and mental disorders identified by school personnel.(4)The term "mental disorder" means different things to different people. What do the mental health "experts" who apply the label mean? Listen to the words of Dr. G. Brock Chisolm, first head of the World Federation of Mental Health. Later he became head of the World Health Organization of the United Nations. His address, sponsored by the William Alanson White Psychiatric Foundation, was delivered in October 1945, in Washington, DC, to a large group of psychiatrists and high-government officials. Chisolm said:
What basic psychological distortion can be found in every civilization of which we know anything? The only psychological force capable of producing these perversions is morality--the concept of right and wrong. The re-interpretation and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong are the belated objectives of nearly all psychotherapy.Anticipating an objection, Chisolm added:If the race is to be freed from its crippling burden of good and evil it must be psychiatrists who take the original responsibility.
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The pretense is made that to do away with right and wrong would produce uncivilized people, immorality, lawlessness, and social chaos. The fact is that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respected people have escaped from moral chains and are able to think freely.Fifty years after Chisolm made those "mental health" pronouncements, society is plagued by "uncivilized people, immorality, lawlessness and social chaos."
Chisolm had been obsessed for years with the idea that instilling concepts of right and wrong, love of country, and morality in children by their parents is the paramount evil. In another speech, he said:
The people who have been taught to believe whatever they were told by their parents or their teachers are the people who are the menace to the world.(6)It was this same concept which Harvard psychiatry professor Chester Pierce enunciated at the Childhood International Seminar in 1973 in Denver. As has already been quoted in Chapter 4 Pierce told educators:
Every child in America entering school at the age of 5 is mentally ill because he comes to school with certain allegiances to our founding fathers, toward our elected officials, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being, and toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity. It's up to you as teachers to make all these sick children well--by creating the international child of the future.That's what will result from in-school mental health programs, the "behavior modification cycle of OBE, the Medicaid-financed programs for "at-risk" students, School-to-Work, multi-culturalism, diversity training and the NEA-promoted counseling sessions. They all contribute to "creating the international child of the future."
Drs. Chisolm and Pierce cannot be written off as "two isolated crackpots." After expressing these views widely and frequently fifty years ago, Chisolm became head of the World Federation of Mental Health and the World Health Organization. Is it any wonder that Chisolm's appointment as head of the World Health Organization was warmly sponsored by his friend, the communist spy, Alger Hiss?(7) As detailed in the Mental Health chapter in None Dare Call It Treason--25 YEARS LATER, other psychiatrists and psychologists have similar views, officially expressed.
How did the Chisolms and the other experts hope to achieve control over Americans they say need "care"? Chisolm provided the answer:
We may begin to speculate on the advisability that psychiatrists, once the necessary one, two, or three million are available should be trained as salesmen and be taught all the techniques of breaking down sales resistance.(8)The growing field of "school counselors" is filling the "need." Even counselors with sound beliefs, those who recognize that most mental health "problems" are rooted in spiritual needs that cannot by law give truly troubled students real answers.
The two drastic changes made in Title I and Medicaid guidelines broaden the definitions of what "treatments" can "earn" reimbursements under the two federal programs. Waivers are the third factor which has allowed government-sponsored in-school mental health treatments to be imposed on hundreds of thousands of school students. Waivers have been a key factor in the medicalization of schools without the approval of Congress or state legislatures. Representative Rohrer's committee learned how it works. He said:
It's a bureaucracy to bureaucracy transaction. Simply have the state exectutive branch and Department of Welfare apply to the [federal] Health Care Finance Administration and waivers will be granted. Once granted these waivers allow all types of things to occur.The federal Government Accounting Office (GAO) pointed up the danger of waivers in testimony presented to the Congressional Committee on the Budget on April 4, 1995. The testimony was:There is a major problem with waivers...the very purpose of waivers is to allow that which is not permitted by law.(9)
...allowing the waiver process to be used to expand coverage to hundreds of thousands of additional individuals without the consultation and concurrence of Congress appears inappropriate. The result of these waivers could lead to a heavier financial burden on the federal government.The states are impacted as well because all Medicaid money must be matched on some basis by the state. That's what alerted the Pennsylvania legislature to what was happening in the Keystone state. From 1994 to 1995, the proposed budget jumped Medicaid expenses from about $10-million to $65-million. That prompted the legislature to authorize its year-long investigation.
Dr. Jane M. Orient, MD, practices internal medicine and serves as the Executive Director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. While the general public for the most part has not given much attention to the "medicalization of the schools" and the growing "mental health treatment" of students, Dr. Orient writes:
Some attentive parents have been very concerned about the program, especially when they perceive that certain aspects have been deliberately concealed. Surveys asking intrusive psychological questions have been done without parental consent... The "consent" process for the school-based clinics may really be just notification, at best, or an attempt at notification of possible treatment. If a permission slip is sent home and placed in the student's file, and a refusal is not returned within seven days, treatment is deemed to be "authorized." There is not even a requirement to show that the form actually arrived at the student's home. Parents need not be notified if treatment (e.g. psychotherapy) is actually rendered, and Medicaid does not send them an Explanation of Benefits form.(10) No restrictions are placed on the treatment except that it must be "deemed advisable or necessary by the student's examining or attending physicians and/or other professional employees at the hospital.(11)Dr. Orient added, "Treatment may be prescribed, not only for students who are 'at risk' for substance abuse, suicide, antisocial behavior, etc. but also for those who are 'at risk of being at risk.'"(12)
What can concerned parents do? How can they determine whether the school district which their children or grandchildren attend is providing "treatment" for conditions designated as "mental health disorders" so they can qualify for Medicaid reimbursement? One concerned Pennsylvania parent suggested a series of questions, including:
Has your school obtained "partial hospitalization provider status" and/or a Medicaid provider number? Does your school counsel students in group therapy type sessions where family and personal matters are discussed? Do intrusive personality "tests" ask personal questions which may induce insecurity or undermine family relationships and values? Does your school have a procedure for labeling students "at risk" or "at risk of being at risk" because of certain things in their backgrounds or attitudes? Does your school have anger management or conflict resolution lessons? Who is paying for these programs in your school?Those questions are appropriate and need to be asked. Pennsylvania, Illinois, Missouri, Connecticut and Kentucky have all been shown to be involved in the medicalization of their schools. They are not alone. Medicaid funds are now available to any state wishing to tap into them. The questions need to be asked whether children are in public or private schools. In some states like Missouri even parochial schools have obtained Medicaid status for their school-based clinics.(13)
It's all part of a back door approach to a universal national health care system. Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act from the Hillary Clinton White House Health Care Inter-Departmental Working Group show the connections. Even before Congress, under massive pressure from across America, killed the Clinton proposals for a socialized universal health care plan for all Americans plans had been made to institute the plan piecemeal starting with children.(14) School-based clinics financed by making children from higher and higher income families eligible for Medicaid was the key. It is being done now.
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Something is WRONG! They are not doing a very good job of screening out the 'shooters'.
Maybe it would help if we gave the teachers all a copy of the Bible, The Constitution & Bill of Rights and a weapon so they could shoot back.
This nation was tamed by folks who carried all three ...all the time. It'll be destroyed by those who give up all three.
Right on!, it's John Birch Society night on Free Republic! Hopefully it's not the last gasp. John Stormer wrote the WONDERFUL book, None Dare Call it Treason (a Birch standard, although somewhere I read that Mr. Stormer was never a "dues-paying member" of the Society), after which the late-Gary Allen wrote the devastating, flat-out undeniable None Dare Call it Conspiracy.
It's like a trip down Memory Lane for me a la noche.
Great job but now I think I am going to be sick. Only a massive effort by the citizenry can turn this CRAP around. Alas the masses have compitulated from every battle. These are truely dark daze.
You've been typing for nine chapters? Good gracious Benighted.
I saw on 60 minutes last night that the Secret Service is examining school killings and advising public schools on how to deal with potential killers. For the sake of protection.
"If the race is to be freed from its crippling burden of good and evil it must be psychiatrists who take the original responsibility. (5)
Anticipating an objection, Chisolm added:
(1) The pretense is made that to do away with right and wrong would produce uncivilized people, immorality, lawlessness, and social chaos.
(2) The fact is that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respected people have escaped from moral chains and are able to think freely."
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Ben, What "race" was Chisolm talking about anyway? And this "psychiatrist" was wrong on BOTH counts of his above statement. Removal of right and wrong DEFINETLY produces chaos in general. And, as far as psychiatrists and psychologists and other "respected" people who have escaped moral chains are able to think freely, the dogma taught by them today proves otherwise. Not only that, has anyone ever met a psychiatrist or psychologist or "respected" person who maintains any symblance of civility when challenged? It's evil!! Peace and love, George.
Ben, THANKS for this post!! Peace and love, George.
Something is WRONG! They are not doing a very good job of screening out the 'shooters'.
Well, what can they say? Once they've created the shooters, where do they then send them? (I shudder to think of the potential solutions to that question.)
You've been typing for nine chapters?
No, my fingers would never hold up. LOL
If I could, I'd gladly post the entire book on FR, but I'm sure Pastor Stormer would rather sell his book than give it away. (Also, I doubt that my dues to FR would cover the cost of the bandwidth I'd use in doing it. LOL)
George, this is really telling. There are threads that are running 400+ posts long, speculating about potential vice-presidential candidates for administrations that don't even exist, or whatever the useless debate of late is, while this item has received (maybe) a total of twenty responses.
I'll have to re-think my position that FReepers are not representative of the majority of Americans.
Ben, I'm convinced, That Freepers are WAY ahead of most folks. In fact, I sometimes wonder at how fast this type of post gets literally swamped with inanity. And, being the paranoid that I am {like the lady whose cynicysm couldn't keep up, events keep making my paranoia meaningless}, I wondersometimes if the idea is simple obfuscation. Whatever, it works. Peace and love, George.
RIGHT ON WITH THOSE REMARKS ABOUT WHO WON THIS COUNTRY AND WHO IS LOSING IT BUMP BUMP
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I'll never forget the day four years ago when I lost my "innocence" about the education world. I literally crawled into bed and layed in the fetal position crying my eyes out. To finally realize and know the evil intention of the socialist bureaucrats who have taken charge of education in our beloved country, is enough to make one physically sick. After getting over the initial shock, reality sets in. Most parental reaction is to unite and fight back. Sometimes little victories can be won along the way.
The sad truth is that the savagery one encounters by the educational establishment is so overwhelming, most folks liken it to a torture chamber and eventually throw in the towel. I've witnessed this senario too many times and its heartbreaking.
Knowledge is power, Benighted, and I thank you for this post. I am however, not sure this massive educational malignancy can be stopped. I fear that it would virtually take a nation-wide parental revolution to cause any meaningful educational changes. I don't mean to sound so negative, it's just that I'm worn out fighting and getting nowhere.
I'm also one of those people who gets disgusted with people (and Freepers) who don't make what is happening in EDUCATION their NUMBER ONE PRIORITY. Afterall, fighting for good educations for our children is the "little picture". It is the manipulation and control of education by those with evil agendas that will cause us to loose our very freedom! Why can't people understand that? Wake up folks!
Lep, I was talking to my elderly aunt yesterday, and I mentioned that these people were saying, "The kids are ruined by their parents before they get to school". And she as so many, said, "THAT'S TRUE!!" I told her, "They're talking about YOUR kids!". She says , "I taught MY kids right from wrong!" I told her that was what was wrong in these people's{?} minds. According to them , "There IS NO 'right and wrong'"> Even IF a person teaches their children "right", the schools teach them as long as you're out of mom's and Dad's sight, THERE IS NO RIGHT AND WRONG!!! It is a TOUGH job. Peace and love, George.
Thats why this postmodern garbage is so popular, there is no accountability. Bill Clinton is the postmodern President, we are witness to what happens when postmodernism infects government, through and through.
My mom and I had almost the same conversation, but her response to me really made me think. She thinks the underlying reason for this is that , we, growing up and going to school knew our teachers as neighbors, friends, fellow church members, strangers weren't teaching our children. I feel like a stranger at the local school, I know them by name and face only. We have lost so much and short of investigating these people there is not much hope. By the way, my sister is a cec. at the local catholic school, I have no more kids in school, if I did it would be home school only.
Guys, ONE of the reasons for this belief is all the talking heads and education commune-ity saying incessantly, "It is the PARENTS!" I used to hear this a LOT, and shrugged it off. But, I have come to the conclusion that this is just another effort at propaganda. And, it works. Because the "parents are 'so bad'", NOW "they" are making the arguement that, "We NEED to get the children at a younger age." AND, this leads to the idea of federally funded "Day Care" facilities for all those poor folks who can't afford it. IT'S EVIL!!!! Peace and love, George.
Guys, ONE of the reasons for this belief is all the talking heads and education commune-ity saying incessantly, "It is the PARENTS!" I used to hear this a LOT, and shrugged it off. But, I have come to the conclusion that this is just another effort at propaganda. And, it works. Because the "parents are 'so bad'", NOW "they" are making the arguement that, "We NEED to get the children at a younger age." AND, this leads to the idea of federally funded "Day Care" facilities for all those poor folks who can't afford it. IT'S EVIL!!!! Peace and love, George.
It is an exhausting battle, and it does seem endless and futile. But as long as we have the ability to do so, we need to keep shouting as loudly as we possibly can about it...
It is the manipulation and control of education by those with evil agendas that will cause us to loose our very freedom!
...and this is exactly why.
Hang in there, right wing. We might very well end up losing, but we'll go down fighting!
Will do!
I am however, not sure this massive educational malignancy can be stopped. I fear that it would virtually take a nation-wide parental revolution to cause any meaningful educational changes.
There IS a parental revolution. It's called home-schooling
If you can control what people think, you have permanent power. The objective of the educational establishment is to produce a controllable population. To achieve that power, they must control who is allowed in the classroom. They have this accomplished, to a large degree, by controlling the colleges of education.
Once the classrooms are controlled, and taught by the "correct" people, then the task of identifying potential "troublemakers" becomes easy. A young child doesn't know enough to hide his true viewpoints from teachers. Once the troublemakers are identified (namely intelligent conservative/libertarian/religious kids with leadership talent), then it's just a matter of ensuring that they never achieve any prominent position.
To ensure they never achieve prominent position, just make their school lives so unpleasant that they don't get good grades or go to a good college, or even drop out.
For kids with real potential, you can always burn out their brains with Ritalin, Prozac or some such.
Maybe it would help if we gave the teachers all a copy of the Bible, The Constitution & Bill of Rights and a weapon so they could shoot back.
Most would find all three too frightful to consider.
"too frightful to consider."
Shrop, Most find these truths about what is going on in education to frightful to consider. Peace and love, George.
For those of you who have children in (Heaven forbid) government schools, ask them if they have ever been taught the Constitution in any of their classes. I'm betting the answer is NO. Check most college and university course catalogs...very few will offer a course on the United States Constitution. Incidentally, NONE DARE CALL IT EDUCATION is an outstanding book, and I would recommend it to anyone, even if you do NOT have children.
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ask them if they have ever been taught the Constitution in any of their classes.
My oldest had to cover the Constitution, including looking up all the hard words. Then again, I'm homeschooling her.
Having kids actually READ the Constitution would raise too many questions that the elite do not want raised. Like "why is 90% of what the govt is doing not authorized by the Constitution?"
ask them if they have ever been taught the Constitution in any of their classes.
My oldest had to cover the Constitution, including looking up all the hard words. Then again, I'm homeschooling her.
Having kids actually READ the Constitution would raise too many questions that the elite do not want raised. Like "why is 90% of what the govt is doing not authorized by the Constitution?"
"Having kids actually READ the Constitution would raise too many questions that the elite do not want raised."
Sauron, Having ADULTS read the Constitution is something the elite don't want to happen. I am still trying to figure out how to get the little handbook {Pocket sized} with the Constitution and the declaration with a few other things printed out in ALL of the written languages of the world and handed out to every reading citizen. I think the revolution would begin. Peace and love, George.
Part of the problem is that a large percentage of the population has been so dumbed down. The Constitution has too many hard words for many people to understand it without a dictionary at hand. Too many people don't even know how to use a dictionary, much less own one and be in the habit of using it.
Sauron, Definitions!! The MOST important part of a language. Along with getting away from grading spelling "Because it causes children to become inhibited in their writing", to the "leaders" changing definitions daily to fit their needs for ruling, we ARE in SAD shape. Peace and love, George.
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