It’s a dark day for mental health in America.
The decision to strip health insurance from 17 million people is unconscionable. It will devastate mental health care across our country.
Health coverage is inseparable from mental health. To have good mental health, people need to be able to get and pay for care.
Without insurance, preventable mental illness won’t be prevented. Managed illness will go unmanaged. Crises will escalate. People struggling with substance use will have fewer paths to hope, and those in recovery will be cut off from life-sustaining treatment.
In every community—red states and blue—emergency rooms, law enforcement, jails, and prisons will become the mental health providers of last resort. Desperate GoFundMe appeals will multiply.
We are saddened by this bill’s passage, but we are resolved to keep fighting at every level to ensure people have access to the mental health care they need.
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