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> provider services for mental health are much smaller than they could our should be to serve our population As I responded to your sibling commenter, I don't
by vonmoltke 7y ago
> provider services for mental health are much smaller than they could our should be to serve our population
As I responded to your sibling commenter, I don't think my original point was clear. I'm asserting that those existing provider services suck and are ineffective, and that what is needed is a paradigm shift in how mental health care is formulated and delivered, not a spread of those existing services.
- dv_dt 7y agoI think poor service and unstable sources of funding are fundamentally linked, and that stable funding is a precursor needed (or at least strongly helping) when considering a paradigm shift in how to deliver mental health care. The funding societally is so poor now that the common end path is people ending up in prison. And, as the article indicates, it's not like the private insurance companies are picking up the expenditure.