1. David de Voursney david.devoursney@samhsa.hhs.gov 240.276.1882
Respondent Slides Demonstrating the links between research, practice, and policy in early childhood mental health
David de Voursney

2. The Federal Deficit and Debt
Data for chart on left from Historical Tables FY 2009 Budget - OMB and Historical Budget Data and Projections - CBO
Other charts found on the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Website

3. More Charts

4. How about states?

5. What happened? What will happen?
Healthcare costs are straining federal and state budgets, the ability of employers to provide benefits, and the wellbeing of families.
Healthcare spending doubled from 1996 to 2006, and is projected to rise to 25% of GDP in 2025.
Employer-sponsored health insurance premiums have more than doubled in the last 9 years, a rate 4 times faster than cumulative wage increases.
Half of all personal bankruptcies are at least partly the result of medical expenses.
An estimated 87 million people – 1 in every 3 Americans under the age of 65 - were uninsured at some point in 2007 and 2008.
Statistics on the right taken from “The Costs of Inaction” - a white house report

6. The Takeaway We won’t be getting (much) new money.
We have to be smart and organized, efficiencies must be realized through new science and better management.
We must use our data resources to allocate funds more efficiently, inform quality improvement, and feed new research.
We must build a data infrastructure to enable these things to happen.
We must tailor our efforts to make them usable by the current workforce.
We need to leverage existing recourses, like families and other social networks.