Kamala Harris is pitching a new mental health to tackle rising suicide rates, mental illness among homeless people and a severe shortage in treatment facilities across the country Here's a breakdown of the plan 👇
Sen. Kamala Harris is pitching a new mental health plan to tackle rising suicide rates, mental illness among homeless people and a severe shortage in treatment facilitiesThe California Democrat joins a number of her fellow presidential candidates in offering a plan to address the shortage of mental health and addiction care providers across the country. Suicide rates have steadily climbed over the past two decades, and“We need to act.
Mental health providers would also get a pay increase. The plan would eliminate the decades-old Medicaid restriction on funding care for patients staying at large mental health institutions. Harris said she will prioritize mental health research, including more funding for studies examining how to treat PTSD, trauma and traumatic brain injuries among soldiers and veterans. She'll also focus on methods for reducing homelessness, incarceration and excessive emergency room visits among people with serious mental illness.
She also supports reclassifying schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses as a neurological condition instead of a behavioral condition. TheIt doesn't explain how Harris would pay for the robust proposal, which includes ideas that come with a hefty price tag. For example, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office previously estimated that repealing the ban on Medicaid payments for large mental health institutions would cost between $40 billion and $60 billion over a decade.
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