In Congress, I will work to bring people together around destigmatizing mental illness, ensuring everyone has access to affordable mental health services and educating our children and communities about the help that help exists.
Work to bring people together around destigmatizing mental illness and ensuring access to affordable mental health services.
Occurrences
Evidence
Under the Mental Illness issue heading, the campaign said: "In Congress, I will work to bring people together around destigmatizing mental illness, ensuring everyone has access to affordable mental health services and educating our children and communities about the help that help exists."
Congress.gov shows Troy E. Nehls as an original cosponsor of H.R.2426 on 03/27/2025. The bill would require VA to study the quality of mental health and addiction therapy care provided by the VA compared to non-VA providers, and the page lists its status as Introduced.
Assessments
The promise was broad but outcome-oriented: destigmatize mental illness and ensure access to affordable mental health services. The available evidence shows Nehls made a concrete legislative effort by originally cosponsoring H.R.2426 in the same term, a mental-health-related bill focused on VA mental health and addiction therapy care quality. However, Congress.gov still lists the bill only as introduced and referred to committee, with no enacted law or demonstrated delivered policy outcome expanding affordable access or destigmatization. Under the rule for serious attempts that fail to deliver the promised outcome, this is never with an effort badge.