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Article: Mental health under national health care reform: the empirical foundations.
- Article from:
- Health and Social Work
- Article date:
- November 1, 1994
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The enactment of health care reform in the United States will require some trade-offs among cost, consumer choice, and social justice. Although there is widespread support for national health insurance, the electorate has been reluctant to support increased expenditures for the coverage of uninsured Americans. Mental health care is viewed as one source of increased expenditures. Popular misperception suggests that costs can be controlled by minimizing the provision of mental health care benefits in the way many health maintenance organizations (HMOs) currently do. This misperception would perpetuate a two-tiered public-private mental health system and preclude the ...