Ledger · 2016 campaign · № 71
Expand mental health programs
Partial“[paraphrase] We have to expand treatment for the mentally ill; the halfway houses and institutions need to come back.”
- Promised
- , Campaign Second Amendment and public safety materials
- Re-promised
- 4 times with a fresh deadline
- Topic
- Health care
- Era
- 2016 campaign
What happened
Some funding increased through the 21st Century Cures Act and opioid response grants, but the administration's budgets repeatedly proposed cuts to SAMHSA programs and to Medicaid, the largest payer for mental health care. PolitiFact rated the record mixed and the promise a compromise.