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Tim Murphy

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Tim Murphy is a former Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district from 2003 until 2017. During his time in Congress, Murphy focused on issues such as healthcare, mental health reform, and energy policy. He was known for his work on the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act, which aimed to improve mental health services and support for families affected by mental illness. Murphy also served on various committees, including the Energy and Commerce Committee, where he contributed to legislation on health care and energy issues.

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Jun 23, 2015

His case was one where he took his son to a hospital in Virginia, and the hospital said we don't have any beds.

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Jun 23, 2015

If we close the institutions down, we don't have enough hospitals because Medicaid has said you can't have them.

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Jun 15, 2015

We lay out a greater emphasis on secondary and tertiary prevention, and say you have to put some more dollars into child and adolescent areas rather than wait until later on.

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Jun 15, 2015

We will not be silenced. We will make some changes here.

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Jun 15, 2015

The Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act of 2015, H.R. 2646, aims to fix the Nation's broken mental health systems.

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Jun 15, 2015

Our mental health system is broken. Badly broken. It is getting worse, and it has to be fixed.

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Jun 15, 2015

Mr. Murphy. Mr. Chairman, just to correct the record on the misrepresentation or perhaps misunderstanding about abortion.

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Jun 15, 2015

It is critically important we move upstream. We have to arrest this at stage 1, 2, and 3.

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Jun 15, 2015

We have a massive amount of common ground here. We have to link arms together and do this.

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Jun 15, 2015

Our bill does not require assisted outpatient treatment. It does not, and that is a misnomer.

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Jun 15, 2015

It is imperative that in the process of revamping our mental health care system, that we be guided by scientific evidence and not ideology or opinion.

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Jun 15, 2015

What we do is we elevate SAMHSA from an agency to having Assistant Secretary of Mental Health and Substance Use be the head of that.

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