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[When asked if mental health outreach to those under the poverty line could be funded by Congress if it were demonstrably proven that it benefitted all Americans socially and economically]: “If you’re asking whether we can expect much change simply because that change would serve everyone’s advantage in both economic and human terms,” said [Senator] Domenici, “I regret to tell you the answer is no.”

“It is often said that depression is a thing to which a leisured class falls prey in a developed society; in fact, it is a thing that a certain class has the luxury of articulating and addressing.”