Everyone should go to the dentist, and many insurance policies pay for that. Insofar as it works, therapy is "preventive care" -- it should help you to live a

Everyone should go to the dentist, and many insurance policies pay for that. Insofar as it works, therapy is "preventive care" -- it should help you to live a healthier life, thus reducing your overall cost to the insurer. This gets tricky when we consider the frequency and cost of therapy. If you go every week, and a session costs $200 (not unreasonable in much of the world) then it's probably only coverable in a single-payer, "healthcare-is-a-human-right" system, and even then only after building a pro-therapy consensus that might be difficult. Because even if everyone should go to therapy, lots of people think they shouldn't.