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ON EDGE: Failed 2014 mental health overhaul shows how state political connections maintain the status quo

When Crisis Access of Colorado won a bid to reform the state’s mental health services, its leader planned to bring the “A-Team” to serve the state’s poor and mentally ill. But mental health lobbyists used political connections to pressure state leaders out of their contract.

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