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This is an argument for treating mental health as ordinary health care, not as something separate or secondary. It can be taken to mean that emotional suffering deserves the same practical access and seriousness as physical injury or disease. It lands clearly in conversations about policy, insurance, or stigma, where equal treatment is the real point.
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About Neera Tanden
American political consultant
Neera Tanden is an American political consultant and former government official. She is the president and CEO of the Center for American Progress, a Democratic think tank, and served in the Biden administration from 2021 to 2025. Tanden was director of the United States Domestic Policy Council from 2023 to 2025. Before that, she was a senior advisor and staff secretary to President Joe Biden from 2021 to 2023. She had already spent years with the Center for American Progress, including a previous tenure as its president, after working there in different roles since its founding in 2003.
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