Rapid-response teams aid troubled youths in New Jersey – but funding limits Maryland’s similar effort

Access to mental health care was complicated in her rural county, and school officials considered suspending the 6-year-old. That was when the school notified New Jersey’s Mobile Response and Stabilization Services — an urgent response system built to aid those in crisis without sending them to the emergency room or getting the police involved. 

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Eliminating mandatory psychiatric coverage: toughening up America and saving millions of people billions of dollars

If Elon Musk and President Donald Trump are serious and fearless – and one thinks that they manifestly are — about the dual goals of saving the American people money and increasing their independence and control of their lives, they should start by terminating the mandatory health insurance that Americans pay for mental health.

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