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The Biden administration proposes new rules to push insurers to boost mental health coverage (apnews.com)
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President Joe Biden’s administration has announced new rules meant to push insurance companies to increase their coverage of mental health treatments.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

More severe problems also don’t get addressed properly, psychotic symptoms that don’t affect conversation ability are essentially untreatable because you can’t involuntarily commit someone until they can’t take care of themselves, so you just end up with someone who has had their sense of self and reality twisted into knots, and nothing can be done.