Opportunity for Input-Mental Health
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Finance Committee Ranking Member Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, are working together to develop bipartisan legislation to address barriers to mental health care as the COVID-19 pandemic has worsened alarming trends in Americans’ mental health. They are seeking input from stakeholders across the health care continuum to help better understand how Congress can address these challenges to be able to develop a bipartisan legislative package before the end of the year addressing many of the behavioral health care challenges currently faced by millions of Americans. Responses are due by November 1, 2021, and can be sent to mentalhealthcare@finance.
Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-La.), members of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, are requesting feedback from patients, families, health care providers, advocacy organizations, and state, local, tribal, and territorial governments on the effectiveness of the historic federal mental health and substance use disorder programs that were signed into law in 2016 as part of the senators’ historic mental health legislation. Read the full letter here, requesting input by November 5, 2021. Constituents, health care providers, and other stakeholders may leave feedback on their experience navigating the mental health or substance use disorder system using this form.
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