MAHA for Mental Health 🧠

[Eamon (MAHA for Mental Health 🧠)]

Mental Health vs. Health Insurance: What Should Be Covered

Therapy for mental health not be a "deductible" item

With most insurance plans, a person can see a therapist and only pay a reasonable copay (like seeing a medical doc or specialist). But this isn’t the case with all insurance plans, which means the person has to meet a deductible first which puts mental health care out of reach. Or they were meeting with a therapist and with the new year comes a fresh deductible to meet, and they have to aburptly stop therapy. PCP and specialists visits are copays even when a deductible has yet to be met. This…

Mental Health all covered by Insurance

All Mental Health should be covered by all insurance. Mental health is health and arguably, the most important. Most of the issues in our country are due to the state of our mental health. Most people know they are depressed, anxious, or have an idea that something is wrong mentally and want help but just can’t affordable the out-of-pocket cost. Therapy and other mental health services should be covered in full by insurance, not just after the deductible is met for adults, elderly and children. …

Prioritization of Mental Health

Many of the root causes of suicide and violence are untreated mental health issues. We need a legitimate program or bill that offers lower overhead cost for therapy/psychiatry, expands insurance coverage to include mental health treatments, and treats mental health issues as seriously as physical health issues. The cost of treatment for mental health problems is insanely unaffordable for most people, and I believe that making treatment easier to access will also aid in lowering the amount of sui…

@Jules

I am thinking that it should be common for meditation and tai chi to be readily accessible and paid for by insurance as a common thing.