6A - Thursday, January 24, 2013

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Mental health funding
may increase in states

A Jordanian woman casts her ballot at a polling station in Amman, Jordan, Wednesday. The nations monarchy has tooted
Wednesday's parliamentary election as a watershed in the kingdom's democratization.
Jordan election results in a
more powerful parliment

New legislature
to choose prime
minister to split
powers with king
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - Jor-
danians voted Wednesday for a
parliament with wider author-
ity, as the king cedes some of his
powers to try to prevent simmer-
ing dissent from boiling over into
a full blown Arab Spring uprising.
The new legislature will choose
the prime minister and run day-
to-day affairs, powers that used to
reside with King Abdullah II. For-
eign policy and security matters
remain in the hands of the king.
Abdullah has introduced the
reforms in a measured manner,
trying to manage the pace of
change.
Critics charge that the reforms
are too mild and the election is
not enough of a change. The main
opposition group, the Muslim
Brotherhood, boycotted the vot-
ing.
The 2011 Arab Spring upris-
ings in the region set off a wave
of demonstrations in this usually
placid U.S. ally. They have includ-
ed unprecedented calls for the

king to step down, raising alarms
about the depth of the unrest.
The protests in Jordan have
not been on the scale of the upris-
ings that toppled leaders in Egypt,
Libya, Yemen and Tunisia, or the
bloody civil war in neighboring
Syria.
Nearly 300,000 Syrian refu-
gees have fled to Jordan, some
suspected of links to the Syrian
regime. Some in Jordan worry
that they could be a destabilizing
element.
At a polling station at an
Amman highschool, Islam Qandil,
29, wearing an Islamic niqab cov-
ering her whole face except her
eyes, said she didn't agree with
the opposition boycott. The oppo-
sition has "the right to express
their views, but the rule in Jordan
is fair," she said, expressing trust
in the king.
Outside another polling station
across town, convenience store
clerk Mohammed Abu-Summaqa,
21, said he would not cast a ballot.
"Members of parliament will
not be able to do anything for us
because they are controlled by the
king and Cabinet, so why should I
vote?" he asked.
Because of the Brotherhood's
absence, the next parliament is
likely to be a mix of independents

with little political experience
and pro-king conservatives, as
previous ones were.
Nearly 1,500 candidates,
including 191 women, ran for the
150-seat parliament. Woman have
15 seats reserved for them under a
quota, and Christians, who make
up 4 percent of the country's 6
million population, will get at
least nine.
Polling stations stayed open for
an extra hour to accommodate
late voters. Independent Electoral
Commission spokesman Hus-
sein Bani Hani said turnout was
about 56.5 percent of Jordan's 2.3
million registered voters, slight-
ly more than the last election
in 2010. Unofficial results were
expected on Thursday.
The Brotherhood and four
other smaller parties, mainly
Communists and Arab national-
ists, stayed away to protest an
election law they see as biased
in favor of Abdullah's loyalists.
The government countered that
the Islamists' alternative would
inflate their representation.
"Today was a comedy," said
Zaki Bani Irsheid, a leader of the
Islamic Action Front, the Broth-
erhood's political arm. "How can
you have elections without the
opposition?"

Pressure to where spending fell by nearly
40 percent over four years - an
decrease gun amount that Republican Gov.
. b i Nikki Haley has called "abso-
violence behind ltlimrl"
lutely immoral."
new policies Now Haley, who took office
in 2011, has pledged to bolster
a mental health system that
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - dropped case workers, closed
Dozens of states have slashed treatment centers and extended
spending on mental health care waiting lists. She also wants to
over the last four years, driven expand remote access to psy-
by the recession's toll on rev- chiatrists through video con-
enue and, in some cases, a new ferencing.
zeal to shrink government. Both Pennsylvania and Utah
But that trend may be head- have put aside plans to scale
ing for a U-turn in 2013 after back their mental health sys-
last year's shooting rampages tems.
by two mentally disturbed gun- And Kansas, which cut
men. mental health spending by 12
The reversal is especially jar- percent from 2008 to 2011,
ring in statehouses dominated announced this month a new
by conservative Republicans, $10 million program aimed at
who aggressively cut welfare identifying mental health dan-
programs but now find them- gers..
selves caught in a crosscurrent "I don't think we're well set
of pressures involving gun con- asa state at all to be able to deal
trol, public safety and health with these intensive cases" of
care for millions of disadvan- mental illness, acknowledged
taged Americans. Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback,
In many states, lawmakers usually an avid proponent of
have begun to recognize that downsizing social programs.
their cuts "may have gone too The sudden pause reflects
deep," said Shelley Chandler, anxiety from last year's shoot-
executive director of the Iowa ings in a Colorado movie theater
Alliance of Community Provid- and a Connecticut elemen-
ers. "People start talking when tary school. Although little is
there's a crisis." known about the mental health
About 30 states have reduced of either gunman, the attacks
mental health spending since have shaken state legislatures
2008, when revenues were in that until recently didn't intend
steep decline, according to the to consider more social spend-
National Alliance on Mental Ill- ing. In some cases, gun-rights
ness. In a third of those states, advocates are seeking mental
the cuts surpassed 10 percent. health reforms as an alternative
As a result, nine state-run to more gunlaws.
psychiatric hospitals were Jon Thompson, spokesman
closed and another 3,200 beds for the Republican Governors
for mental health patients were Association, said many bud-
eliminated, dramatically reduc- get-cutting governors are hav-
ing treatment options for the ing second thoughts, including
poor and people in the crimi- whether to reform mental
nal-justice system. Thousands health policies "to further
of patients were turned onto invest in the safety of their
the streets. citizens."
Making matters worse, the South Carolina eliminated
cuts came as unemployment 600 full-time case workers and
was rising, causing more people closed five treatment centers.
to lose private insurance and That led to an increase in the
forcing them to shift to public number of people with mental
assistance. illness in jail in Columbia - so
The steepest drop by per- much that it now exceeds the
centage was in South Carolina, patient total at the city's public

psychiatric hospital.
"We've been unable to main-
tain those preventative mea-
sures to keep people out of jail,"
said Bill Lindsey, director of
South Carolina's National Asso-
ciation on Mental Illness.
During former Gov. Mark
Sanford's term, the fiscal pres-
sure was inescapable. The
recession cut state revenue by
more than $I billion from 2008
to 201L
"It wasn't really Sanford's
fault," said former state Rep.
Dan Cooper, Republican chair-
man of the House Ways and
Means Committee. "There ust
wasn't enough money to go
around."
Revenues have since recov-
ered somewhat, and are pro-
jected to be at levels last seen in
2008.
In Kansas, under then-Gov.
Kathleen Sebelius, a Demo-
crat, state psychiatric hospitals
began treating only the most
dangerous cases. Caseloads, at
the Johnson County Mental
Health Center near Kansas City
rose from the recommended 15
per caseworker to more than 30
in 2010.
Tim DeWeese, the center's
clinical director, said one of
his patients who had finished
college and gotten a job and an
apartment became homeless
after his doctor visits were cut
off.
"It came crashing down all
the way," DeWeese said.
Oklahoma also cut men-
tal health programs in 2010
and 2011. But Republican Gov.
Mary Fallin, a conservative
elected in the GOP landslide
of 2010 on a promise to cut
spending, reversed course last
year after grim warnings about
the effect on public safety, and
after several teen suicides in
Oklahoma City.
"There just weren't enough
resources," said Harry Tyler,
director of the Mental Health
Association of Central Okla-
homa.
Fallin approved a 20 per-
cent budget increase and has
pledged to make mental health
a priority again this year.

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