Medicaid Expansion to Boost Access to Mental Health Services

~*PLEASE READ DESCRIPTION*~ Show more. After the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, many officials have been calling for more mental health services in the United States. The same report that I mentioned before says that for every dollar spent on depression, $7 is generated on the economy. And that's mainly because people can't work at all -- or at least not effectively -- when they're suffering from depression. So that's one gain that we can put a dollar figure on. Another is that it cuts back on admissions to hospitals, because mental illness affects physical wellbeing and very often, an individual can have physical health problems and they tend to be much worse when combined with mental illness. A recent study has shown that when comprehensive community based mental health services are available for young people, that cuts down on hospital admissions and the length of stay by 40 percent. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2013/02/medicaid-expansion-will-expand-access-to-mental-illness-treatment.html = = = = = = = = NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED FAIR USE NOTICE: This Video may contain copyrighted (©) material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. Such material is made available to advance understanding of ecological, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, moral, ethical, and social justice issues, etc. It is believed that this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior general interest in receiving similar information for research and educational purposes. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17