Access · United States
KFF: the twin problems of mental health care — access and affordability
Drew Altman's column lays out the structural barriers Americans face in getting and paying for mental health care.
KFF president Drew Altman's column synthesizes the U.S. evidence on what stops people from getting mental health care: workforce shortages, narrow networks, high out-of-pocket costs, and patchy parity enforcement.
It is one of the more accessible entry points into the structural-access conversation that the policy literature can otherwise make impenetrable.
Read the full KFF column for the synthesis and links to underlying data.
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