People with serious mental illness often fall through the gaps in our current health care system. According to Rick Cagen, executive director of the Kansas chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, a third of people who need help do not get in time to avoid a crisis. Country experts call the decision makers to obtain better funding for early treatment.
At a hearing Thursday, January 24 e , Democrats and Republicans on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions convened to address these gaps in care health and also urged the Obama administration to expedite the revisions on the agenda for mental health care. With the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, people with mental illness should have better access to health insurance that covers the abuse of mental health treatment and substance abuse.
Several other provisions of the health care reform law is also meant to help people with mental illness, including:
- prevention programs
- insurance plan for long-term community care
- reauthorization of SCHIP, the health insurance program for children
- improvements in drug benefits from 'insurance
many states also take the law into their own hands. Governor Mark Dayton of Minnesota published a proposal this week calling for the counties to pay a greater share of the cost for patients receiving psychiatric care long-term mental illness in two facilities. Counties currently pay ten percent of treatment costs for residents, while the proposed increase Dayton as fifty percent.
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