WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) today issued a statement on progress to advance landmark mental health reforms.
“The inclusion of long-sought reforms to our mental health system is the result of thoughtful, bipartisan legislating," said Upton and Murphy. “We thoroughly examined the realities of our current mental health care system and how it could and should be improved. This news is a win for families in mental health crisis all across the country. Families have reason to be hopeful. Help will soon be on the way. This effort, first launched in the wake of the Newtown tragedy, helped change the conversation on mental health in America. And these reforms are much too important to not get done this Congress."
The mental health reforms being combined with the 21st Century Cures Act for a medical innovation package, the product of recent bipartisan and bicameral negotiations, and are based off of Chairman Murphy’s H.R. 2646, the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act.
