MAHA for Mental Health 🧠

[Eamon (MAHA for Mental Health 🧠)]

Complex System Overhauls & Improving Long-Term Care

Restructure mental and physical healthcare to heal people (Make Rockefeller Medicine the last resort)

The problem: We already spend trillions on healthcare, but we are the sickest developed country in the world. This is unacceptable. 2/3 of Americans are in medical debt, financial stressors further exacerbate mental health. This problem was created by the incentive to keep people sick and dependent on medications based on petroleum products, produced by Rockefeller. General practitioners are prescribing psychotropics (mood altering drugs), even though they were not studied for long term use an…

Fund Correctional Psychiatric Facilities

On March 27, 2023, a mass shooting occurred at The Covenant School, an elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee when a transgender man killed three nine year old children and three adults. On October 25, 2023, a mass shooting occurred in the State of Maine when a mentally ill man killed eighteen people. Mass shootings imperil the peace, safety and dignity of our citizens. Thousands of innocent citizens in the United States have been fearful for their lives and their children’s lives because of …

Enhancing Access to Private Mental Health Services for Older Adults and Disabled Populations

Policy Proposal: Enhancing Access to Private Mental Health Services for Older Adults and Disabled Populations Introduction This policy proposal advocates for expanding access to private mental health professionals and practices for older adults and disabled individuals. By emphasizing choice and flexibility, this initiative seeks to empower these populations to receive tailored mental health care that aligns with their preferences and needs. The framework will facilitate direct referrals from …

Mental Health treatment must be redefined

Studies show that 20-60% of mental patients do not respond to medical model, standard of care, pharma-based treatments. But this stat is ignored, and many are force drugged with RX they cannot metabolize, are polypharmacy of cocktails that the Physicians Desk Reference (PDR) says DO NOT COMBINE as this can cause death. This is happening all over the country, and this killed my brother and my father. A very expensive practice when treatment resistance is so common, yet ignored. Mental health …

Registered Nurse

BAN ALL mRNA shots! Halt ALL childhood vaccines until proper testing is done! Remove ALL COVID tests from the market and DEVELOP a reliable test for Lyme, Bartonella & Babesia-the suffering & death from these infections are epidemic and have been ignored for decades! Remove the Lyme IDSA guidelines from the CDC web site & replace them with the ILADS guidelines! I am literally watching pediatricians, physicians, psychiatrists, rheumatologists and infectious disease physicians misdiagnose children…

Don’t punish patients with chronic illness

Unfortunately the opioid crisis and related issues such as the fentanyl crisis has started to affect those with chronic illnesses. Any bills that attempt to address the opioid crisis should have an exception for those with chronic illnesses. There are already too many regulations that keep people with real pain from getting treatment. Chronic illness patients are treated like drug seekers by doctors and nurses. Now the topic of pain medication has become so taboo most patients are afraid to eve…

Deprescribe Requirements for Doctors

Requirement for doctors to detail process patient needs to follow to get off of any prescribe medication. If a doctor can prescribe based on symptoms and test, the doctor should also have part of that plan how to come of the medicine to ensure root cause is understood and clear to patient. Each doctor would need to submit plan along with prescription to the pharmacy. Doctors would be required to review plan and make any needed referrals to assist patient. Doctors would need supporting resourc…

Comprehensive assistance / new ideas for the broken mental health system

Note: This falls under catories of Health and Liberty: For those with serious mental illness, it is unconscionable and utterly backward that society allows these disabled citizens to be regularly punished due to their disability. This happens because it is so difficult at every level. Criminalization adds insult to injury, compounding stigma. This medieval practice leaves individuals lost and families, broken. A new course of support is needed that combines legal and medical entities. A new p…

Consistency of Care for those diagnosed SMI (& Do No Harm)

There is no consistency or communication between psychiatric (especially government) care teams/practitioners/facilities, which is essential to successful treatment outcomes. None. We have an idea for an app to coordinate, but I will post a separate policy submission idea for that. Also, studies show that abruptly stopping or changing medications without necessary titration protocol (tapering, taking into careful consideration medications that affect the blood brain barrier). This lack of ti…

New kind of care facilities (homes) for those with Serious Mental Illness (SMI)

NOTE: This falls under health, but also under liberty and economy in the big picture. For those most chronic with serious mental illness that seem to be “treatment resistant” in the current medical model, a new kind of care facility to divert from incarceration is the greatest need of all. Idea: use as a new paradigm model, the private, “gold standard” psychiatric facilities, listed on the American Residential Treatment Association (ARTAUSA) website to build a new kind of care facility for i…

Mentally Ill Disability benefits needs new efficiency and implementation standards

When a person diagnosed with mental illness under the Social Security Act (Title XVI) has Social Security Income (SSI) and Disability Insurance Benefits (DIB), the system allows a lapse by putting some benefits in suspension. When the person has an inpatient stay of over thirty (30) days in a hospital or corrections facility, their money and insurance benefits are fully or partially discontinued until the person is released or discharged. This problem must be corrected so that when the benefits …

Policy on the Deregulation of Long Term care

Very infantile stages, in deregulating long term care policies, which are more hindering the ability to provide nursing care, than help. Long term care has been forgotten. After COVID, the care and management of our long-term care facilities, rapidly deteriorated. I have been a nurse, for 20 years, mostly working in long term care. The discussion, regarding deregulation, must be visited, if nothing more, to shed light on a drowning industry. We are overburdened with the work expected, with the m…

Restore Public Hospitals for Chronic Mentally Ill

Over a half century ago, the USA had many public hospitals for chronically mentally ill individuals. These folks would receive the supervision and care they needed. The system was not perfect, but instead of the complete closure that occurred in the 1960’s and 1970’s, the system could and should have been reformed. Here are suggestions for the future care of long-term mentally ill: Least restrictive environment can mean closely supervised longterm in-patient care for those most debilitated. Lo…

The production of Healthcare data must be re-engineered to be patient centric

Smart Systems Thinking Applied to Healthcare. Summary In 2001, the Institute of Medicine (IOM), a division of the National Academy of Sciences, published Crossing the Quality Chasm (http://www.nationalacademies.org) a report, crafted by dozens of independent experts, who sought answers to the question: how can we make America’s healthcare system more efficient and effective? The report concluded that our healthcare system was so convoluted and fragmented, it could not be “fixed” by merely twe…

Re-Engineering Health Care Data - a Primer

Re-Engineering Healthcare – a Strategic Data Primer Summary American healthcare is not broken. Rather, it is operating in a manner consistent with its design. What does that mean? In the current healthcare “system”, the efficiency and effectiveness of patient care services is not measured. Indeed, the effectiveness of services rendered is entirely unrelated to the apparatus that determines the payment made to a provider. If we collectively have the goal of establishing a more efficient …

Cutting waste from hospital settings

CMS and Joint Commission have made many policies that cause excessive waste in the healthcare industry. Particularly with medications, we are required to treat multidose vials as single dose and discard so much medication unnecessarily. A solution to satisfy safe delivery of medications without wasting unnecessarily would be to use predrawn syringes of medications (particularly in the Operating Room setting). Currently some medications are already in premade syringes, but usually hospitals comp…

Agency Reforms: CDC, FDA, NIH

Federal Public Health Agency Reforms: CDC, FDA, NIH Preparing for the Next Health Emergency Aaron Kheriaty, MD The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated how catastrophic a micromanaging, misinformed, centralized, and politicized federal government can be. Basic human rights, medical choice, and the doctor–patient relationship were trampled without scientific justification and for extended periods of time. Excess deaths, not due to COVID-19, skyrocketed because of forced lockdowns, isolation, vaccine…

Nurses Need Mandated Patient Limits

Each department or type of nursing needs a federally mandated limit to how many patients a nurse can have. Acuity levels should be legally mandated as well. There should never be a time when one nurse on a floor has 3 high acuity patients while the other nurse has zero high acuity patients. For example: ICU 2-3 patients tops PCU: should be a required step down unit with 2-3 patients tops Medsurg: 4-5 patients tops Observation: 4-5 patients tops The current “hours” for nursing homes is ridic…

Replace all domestic Federal Agencies (FDA, FCC, USDA, Etc.) With citizen boards. Remove ALL politicians, lobbyists, and activists from the process

Replace all domestic Federal Agencies (FDA, FCC, USDA, Etc.) with citizen boards. Remove ALL politicians, lobbyists, and activists from the process. Agencies that directly affect American Citizens like, but not limited to: FDA, FCC, FTC, USDA, or any agency of the like should have ALL federal appointees removed from the equation, all Lobbiest and activists should be removed from the equation. Citizens boards that are directly impacted by the financial and health implications should sit in decis…

Counteracting Perverse Incentives: A New Path Towards Wellness and Transparency

Executive Summary The Health Strategy Promotion Through Learning (HSPTL) Act introduces an innovative approach to counteract perverse incentives in the for-profit healthcare system by enabling individuals to support health strategies that prioritize wellness. Participants allocate a modest monthly amount—starting at $1 and increasing annually—to registered Health Strategy Providers (HSPs) whose strategies are stored on the blockchain for transparency. HSPs must garner significant community supp…

Decoupling Health Decisions from Financial Incentives

This policy would ensure that medical decisions are made based on the best interest of patients rather than financial gain, thereby potentially improving trust in healthcare systems and reducing overall healthcare costs. Conflict of Interest Disclosure and Prohibition This policy would mandate that all doctors, scientists, and employees of regulatory bodies like the NIH, FDA, and CDC must declare any financial interests or relationships with pharmaceutical companies annually. Furthermore, it…

Humane treatment in mental health facility’s

The issue of cruel and unusual punishment in short term care facilities, residentials, TTI programs and rehab centers has raised serious increasing attention over the years. These facilities are intended to provide a safe and supportive space for mental health issues, addiction or both. However neglect and abuse in these institutions and outside facility’s has gone far to unnoticed. As a patient who was in 7 mental hospitals for depression and one residential I understood that it didn’t matter w…

Mental illness

We really need to eliminate the IMD inclusion that prevents long term care and treatment. HIPPA laws that prevent families from care. Long term care facilities that heal or at least provide compassionate care. Prevent prisons from contracting as the new mental health facilities.