The one silver lining of the Wall Street bailout legislation that was just passed and signed into law by the President is the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008. It has been a long journey that has finally come to an end. “This bill is a [...]
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Wellstone Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Is Finally Law
Posted in mental illness, Minnesota, Politics, Uncategorized, Wellstone, tagged addiction, mental health parity, Minnesota, Wellstone on October 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Wellstone Mental Health Legislation-Act Now!
Posted in mental illness, Minnesota, Politics, Wellstone, tagged mental health parity, Minnesota, Politics, Wellstone on September 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My last post was about the Wellstone mental health legislation and it’s passage in the House. Now it seems to be stalled and is in danger of not becoming law unless the Senate moves it foward. David Wellstone and Wellstone Action sent out this urgent appeal: Our last hope is in the Senate. [...]
Wellstone Mental Health Parity Moves Foward
Posted in Bachmann, Big Dooker, dooker, mental illness, Michele Bachmann, Minnesota, Politics, Wellstone, tagged anwr, Big Dooker, mental health parity, michelle bachmann, Wellstone on September 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It is about damn time! The House passed the Wellstone parity legislation 376 to 47. A Bluestem Prairie has nice coverage of the story. As Ollie Ox pointed out, the only member of the Minnesota delegation to vote against this important piece of legislation was Rep. Michelle Bachman. Maybe if there was an amendment allowing drilling [...]
A Final Vote On Wellstone Mental Health Parity Bill?
Posted in Bachmann, health insurance, mental illness, Minnesota, News, Politics, Tim Walz, video, Wellstone, tagged Jim Ramstad, John Kline, mental health parity, Michele Bachmann, Minnesota, Patrick Kennedy, paul wellstone, Politics, Tim Walz on July 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
An email from David Wellstone alerts us to the possibility of a compromise and final vote on H.R. 1424, the ”Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act of 2008”. From the Wellstone Action website is this description of the bill: The Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act is legislation that would end the [...]
Planting The Seed-New Wellstone Action HQ
Posted in DFL, Elections, Minnesota, News, Organizing, Politics, video, Wellstone, tagged Add new tag, camp wellstone, democrats, Elections, Minnesota, Politics, Wellstone on May 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wellstone Action today announced a redesigned website. The new site incorporates a resource library for organizing tools, a blog, photo and video library, an alumni hub plus many of the old features including a training calendar for Camp Wellstone. Wellstone Action has been around since January of 2003 when it was founded to honor Paul and Sheila [...]
Act Now-Pass the Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Act
Posted in DFL, mental illness, Minnesota, Politics, Tim Walz, Wellstone, tagged H.R. 1424, mental health parity, Minnesota, Ramstad, Walz, Wellstone on March 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Legislation also known as “mental health parity” is scheduled for a vote on Wednesday, March 5. From the Wellstone Action website is this description: The Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act is legislation that would end the practice of insurance companies discriminating against people suffering from mental illness. Sponsored by Representative Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) [...]
Remembering Paul Wellstone
Posted in AFL-CIO, DFL, Iraq, Labor, Minnesota, Minnesota AFL-CIO, Norm Coleman, Peace, Politics, Wellstone, tagged AFL-CIO, democrat, domestic violence, duluth, Iraq, Minnesota, Politics, Wellstone on October 24, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Five years ago on October 25 the labor movement, the State of Minnesota, and the nation lost a great friend and Senator in a tragic airplane crash in northern Minnesota. Sheila Wellstone, his wife and a strong voice on the issue of domestic violence, was also lost along with their daughter, Marcia Wellstone Markuson. Friends and [...]
A Courageous Vote Against The War
Posted in DFL, Iraq, Minnesota, Peace, Politics, Wellstone on September 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Wellstone Action posted this video of the late Senator Paul Wellstone on their site as part of their effort to promote the September 23 rally to end the war in Iraq. The rally will be 1:00 PM Sunday, September 23, in St. Paul on the steps of the Capitol. Since I will be working my regular [...]
Take action-National Parity Day
Posted in mental illness, Wellstone on April 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I received this notice in my in-box today. I wrote on this topic last week and now is the time to take action if you care! ————————— We need your help this Wednesday, May 2. As the bipartisan push for mental health fairness continues in the U.S. House of Representatives, Wellstone Action is joining national [...]
Violence-Virginia Tech and Baghdad
Posted in Baghdad, mental illness, Wellstone on April 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The past several days have been filled with violence. Notably, Virginia Tech and Baghdad. I have a couple of thoughts about the discussions coming out of the Virginia Tech tragedy. While many people are instantly drawn to the question of our gun culture and our gun laws I think we have an opportunity to seriously [...]
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