As a member of the Wisconsin Council on Mental Health and as
one who has spent nearly a lifetime trying to introduce patient treatment outcomes
technology into mental health organizations, I was distressed to see the
editors of the Sunday Journal fail to describe President Obama’s already significant
efforts in this regard. But instead, they
stated that his administration and the existing affordable health care act have
only “dabbled” with this concept. This simply is not true. In fact Obama is and
has been a strong advocate and spokesman for moving our health care forward from
presently measuring and funding service volume to measuring and paying for patient
treatment effectiveness outcomes.
Our readers and voters will be better informed by Googling
SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration), Strategic
Initiative #7: Outcomes and Quality, Department of Health and Human Services.
Hopefully when the moderator of the upcoming debate this
week between the President and Gov. Romney asks which candidate has done the
most to change the focus of health care for the better, readers of the Journal
will have already completed their homework.
Benedict blogs at danecountyalmanac.com
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