Employee Mental Health Benefits in the Private Sector: Workplace Programs and Hiring Policies

• By: Joann Mundin, MD Psychiatrist
• October 7th, 2022
• Affordable Care Act, employee assistance programs, employee wellbeing, employment, Fall 2022 Issue, mental health, mental health benefits, mental health insurance, Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act
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According to a recent study by Mental Health America, about fifty million Americans are experiencing some kind of mental illness. Each year, major depression affects more than 8% of about twenty-one million American adults. No matter a person's origin, age, status, line of work, or other personal...

Fight Against Threats to Behavioral Heath Funding

• By: Michael B. Friedman, LMSW Columbia University School of Social Work
• April 1st, 2017
• Affordable Care Act, behavioral health services, health insurance policy, healthcare access, Medicaid, Medicare, mental health coverage, public policy
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The Trump presidency and Republican control of the Congress may do great damage to the already inadequate American mental health system by repealing the Affordable Care Act, eliminating Medicaid as an entitlement, privatizing Medicare, and limiting the authority of the states to regulate health...