Health Care Acts Timeline
Category: Other
Updated: 1 Dec 2017
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President Truman
signs the National
Mental Health ActPresident Kennedy
signs the Community
Mental Health ActBecause of Medicaid
states are incentivized
to move patients out
of State Mental Hospitals
and into Nursing HomesThe California Legislature passes
the Lanterman Petris-Short Act.
Which makes involuntary
hospitalization of mentally ill
people more difficultPresident Carter signs the Mental Health System ActUnder President Reagan,
the Omnibus Budgt
Reconciliation Act repeals
Carter's Community
Health Legislation, and
establishes block grants
for statesIn the aftermath of the Great Recession, states
are forced to cut $435 billion in public mental
health spending over the next three years.
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