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The Mental Health Systems Act of 1980 (MHSA) was legislation signed by American President Jimmy Carter which provided grants to community mental health centers. In 1981 President Ronald Reagan, who had made major efforts during his governorship to reduce funding and enlistment for California mental institutions, pushed a political effort through the Democratically controlled House of ...
With Democrats having lost a filibuster-proof supermajority in the Senate, but having already passed the Senate bill with 60 votes on December 24, the most viable option for the proponents of comprehensive reform was for the House to abandon its own health reform bill, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, and pass the Senate's bill, The ...
And his health care proposals pushed his party toward the policy strategies that eventually produced the landmark Affordable Care Act in 2010. Carter’s willingness to tackle the politically ...
In 2013, Carter praised the Affordable Care Act (the major health care reform law put forward by President Obama), but criticized its implementation as "questionable at best". [29] In 2017, Carter predicted that the U.S. would eventually adopt a single-payer healthcare system.
Debbie Stabenow learned about the scarcity of mental health care when she was a child. ... Jimmy Carter picked up the ... a template for the Affordable Care Act, the sweeping health care reform ...
Although he served only one 4-year term, Carter had to deal with issues that continued to challenge many of his successors, including inflation, climate, energy production, health care and Middle ...
In June 1979, Carter proposed more limited health insurance reform—an employer mandate to provide private catastrophic health insurance. The plan would also extend Medicaid to the very poor without dependent minor children, and would add catastrophic coverage to Medicare. [98] Kennedy rejected the plan as insufficient. [99]
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter first volunteered with Habitat for Humanity in 1984. The Carter Work Project soon became an annual event led by the former first couple for more than 35 years.