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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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[–] vd1n@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I wish I had faith in our mental health. I feel like Lot of it is nonsense, kinda like a jobs HR department. As if they're trying to keep you on track with what they need vs what you really need.

I hope there's good honest mental health workers out there with wisdom and not just text book "oh your definitely x" after talking twice.

Meh, sorry just ranting.

Everyday my connection to the middle class and up gets further away. It's like I'm getting closer to survival mode. The situations and public social issues just dont hold weight to me anymore... Like it's only somethibg that more wealthy people care about. Others with less have already learned to cope and live without. The positive changes probably won't effect us anyway... Because the world's built on the honest and hard working. I don't want drugs to numb me enough for them to force a faulty system of community survival down my throat.

That being said I've been on depression medication and anxiety medication and it helps.

So...Existentially I don't know what's right.

[–] lowdownfool@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

People being able to get help without going into debt is what's right. The particulars we (or the politicians really) can debate about and find solutions.

[–] gramathy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years 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.

[–] blazera@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

how about any coverage for poor Americans in southern states?

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes because it's just the south that has poor people....

[–] blazera@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No, it's a specific thing predominantly in southern states, where if you dont make a certain amount of money, you get absolutely no help in affording health insurance. It's caused by the states themselves being shitty with a shortcoming of the affordable care act, and closing that shortcoming was one of Biden's promises. And it's been entirely abandoned, so forget mental health coverage, I cant get any healthcare.

[–] Djtecha@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Get more people to vote out the idiots running those states. Most of the time it's the shit governer rejecting Medicare from the federal government.

[–] blazera@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah that aint happening anytime soon

[–] Kata1yst@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Generally it will be more of the same. It's extremely difficult on purpose for the federal government to force programs on States. They have to choose to adopt the programs.

The federal government generally packages such programs with tax incentives to improve adoption, but the states you're referencing are such tax dollar leeches already they don't really stand to benefit. You know, aside from improving life for their citizens.

[–] blazera@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

They just need to amend the section of the ACA dealing with subsidies. They made the lower limit on qualifying incomes with the intention of medicaid taking over from there. And then some states rejected the medicaid part. So we're left with this awkward hole where you can be too poor to qualify for federal aid.