Obamacare Shreds Mental Health Care  Obamacare Shreds Mental
Health Care The American Spectator By Robert M. Goldberg January
18, 2011  As the House of Representatives debates a bill to
repeal Obamacare and start over, the Left will invoke the
tragedy in Tucson as a reason to keep the law in place. Liberal
bloggers and some patient groups are claiming that states are
already cutting mental health budgets to balance budgets,
Arizona among them. They will claim that overturning Obamacare,
which offers mental health benefits through an expansion of
Medicaid, would only deepen the danger. The New Republic's
Jonathan Cohn provides the familiar liberal narrative: "We may
never know whether a better mental health care system would have
averted this massacre. But we can be sure that it would avert
some future ones." While we can't be sure a "better" mental
healthcare system could stop an obsessed schizophrenic from
committing violence, we can be sure that Obamacare will shred
mental health treatment in America. Cohn