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NC Mental Health Channels - a swamp of uncertainty
Submitted by Bunt4710 on Mon, 03/31/2008 - 11:52am.How will NC disengorge itself from the mental health crisis? A question of management...
Action Update: Mental Health Foes' Bunker Mentality
Submitted by Gordon Smith on Fri, 04/13/2007 - 12:05pm.
An assistant to Secretary of Health and Human Services Carmen Hooker Odom came to the DHHS lobby to greet us yesterday. She reported that (1) Secretary Odom was out of the office in very important meetings; (2) that Secretary Odom was carefully answering every email she'd been sent; (3) that it was impossible to give us an idea of when the Secretary would be available or to give us any part of the Secretary's schedule; (4) that Secretary Odom hadn't yet started to respond to the emails because she was waiting on more information from the Division of Medical Assistance.
She's a lying tool of a furious, arrogant, isolated Secretary.
Secretary Odom isn't responding to anyone's emails. She's not interested in gathering correct data, as evidenced by her willingness to throw the entire mental health system into crisis without even doing a proper cost analysis before retroactively slashing rates for mental health services. She's not meeting with providers or recipients of mental health services. She's cowering in her bunker, hoping the whole mess will blow over.
