Washington Examiner : reported that Murphy 'raising red flag' on Trump's mental health pick

Rep. Tim Murphy said he is "raising a red flag" on President Trump's nomination for mental health chief, Dr. Elinore McCance-Katz. "I'm raising a red flag on POTUS pick for assistant secretary for mental health and substance abuse." The Pennsylvania Republican has led the House charge calling for changes to the nation's mental health system. He authored the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act, which created the position that McCance-Katz would fill, called the assistant secretary for mental health and substance use within the Department of Health and Human Services. McCance-Katz is a former chief medical officer at the Substance and Mental Health Services Administration, or SAMHSA, an agency Murphy has criticized.


'Stunned' Murphy lambastes Trump's pick to oversee mental health, substance-abuse treatment programs


'Stunned' Murphy lambastes Trump's pick to oversee mental health, substance-abuse treatment programs
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Rep. Murphy blasts Trump's pick for mental health post

He proposed the assistant secretary position to improve accountability, coordinate 112 mental health programs across government, develop a strategy to increase the mental health workforce, and improve access to care. WASHINGTON — She isn't who U.S. Rep. Tim Murphy had in mind when he crafted a new law creating the position of assistant secretary for mental health and substance abuse. Dr. Welner is a forensic psychiatrist who helped write Mr. Murphy's Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act, which passed last year. "We must have someone reliably and resolutely committed in word and deed for these critical changes to our nation's dilapidated and deadly mental health and substance abuse care," Mr. Murphy wrote. And I will be satisfied with nothing less."Mental health advocate DJ Jaffe said Dr. McCance-Katz is the right person for the job.


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