Health Affairs June 21, 2021
Health policy usually focuses on the delivery of health care. But in many situations, health care alone is not enough to meaningfully improve people’s lives. One of the most common situations in which this is the case is mental illness. Nearly one in five adults, or 51.5 million people, in the United States meets diagnostic criteria for a mental illness, which can impair functioning across a spectrum of severity, ranging from mild to moderate to severe. Yet, despite advances in the diagnosis and treatment of these conditions, and considerable progress on including mental health care in health insurance, people with mental illness—including those with moderate illnesses such as depression or anxiety—continue to be tenuously connected to work and, hence, to...
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