MedPage Today May 10, 2022
— “We had much, much more common ground than disagreements”
WASHINGTON — Two senators are spearheading a bipartisan effort to reauthorize a bill focusing on mental health care.
When Sen. Bill Cassidy, MD (R-La.), and Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) set out to develop a mental health bill, they agreed to disagree on some issues, “but it turns out we had much, much more common ground than we had disagreements,” Cassidy said last week during a briefing with reporters. These areas of agreement resulted in the Mental Health Reform Act of 2015, “something which [Sen.] Lamar Alexander [R-Tenn., former chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions (HELP) Committee] said was the most significant reform...
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