Where Does Your Presidential Candidate Stand On Mental Health Care?

In lieu of last night’s New Hampshire Democratic primary, I thought it’d be interesting to take a look at each presidential candidate’s position on mental health care.

The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) sent each candidate a questionnaire, Bringing Mental Healthcare to the Ballot, and thus far the outcome is…well, blah. Four democrats and two republicans have responded – well, one republican responded and one sort of responded.

C’mon now. There are something like 2,398,373 presidential candidates.

Anyway, below is a quick summary for your convenience.

Democrats:

• Who Responded: John Edwards, Sen. Barack Obama, and Gov. Bill Richardson who responded with his mental health platform.
• Who Haven’t Yet Responded: Sen. Joseph Biden, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Sen. Christopher Dodd, Mike Gravel, and Rep. Dennis Kucinich.

Republicans:

• Who Responded: Sen. John McCain with his mental health statement.
• Who “sort of” Responded: Mitt Romney, who doesn’t respond to questionnaires and hasn’t yet submitted anything in lieu of the questionnaire.
• Who Haven’t Yet Responded: John Cox, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, Rep. Duncan Hunter, Alan Keyes, Rep. Ron Paul, and Fred Thompson.

Ah, well. There’s still plenty of time.

For complete details, view NAMI’s Explore the Candidates.