A few weeks ago, the health care liaison from Senator Dick Durbin's office called me indicating they were having a hard time making headway with a bill called "The MOTHER's Act." It had been introduced in 2007 on Mother's Day, in honor of a woman named Melanie Blocker-Stokes, to create more funding for reach on postpartum depression (PPD) and make more money available for treatment.
Here is the mind-blowing part: other senators had been getting letters opposed to the bill because some groups...
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