ABLECHILD: Connecticut’s Mental Health Providers Beg for Increase in Medicaid, Despite Millions Spent and No One Getting Better
Guest post by JoeHoft.com and AbleChild- republished with permission
Summary Psychiatric Drug Use in Medicaid Population in Connecticut
Health care spending in the U.S. makes up 16.6% of the nation’s GDP, more than any other country in the world and mental health accounts for a reported 5% of that spending.
Make no mistake, mental illness in America is an extremely costly or profitable health care problem depending on who is paying, and who is getting paid, for treatment services.
What is also clear is that the numbers of Americans being diagnosed as mentally ill continually increases. At some point the question becomes with the hundreds-of-billions of dollars being dumped on mental health “treatment,” why isn’t anyone getting better?
