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<\/p>\nShould everyone have a right to quality mental health care?<\/p>\n
Consider these statistics:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Mental health conditions cost the economy an estimated $193 billion dollars in lost earnings each year.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Mental health conditions are the number one cause of disability and workplace absenteeism.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Suicide is at a 30-year high. Every day, an average of 117 people die by suicide.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Up to 25% of people who are homeless live with a serious mental illness.<\/p>\n
\u2022 People with serious mental illness are jailed at nearly 4 times the rate of other individuals.<\/p>\n
From the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid expansion, to the mental health provisions in the 21st Century Cures Act, millions of Americans have gained access to quality, affordable care. What’s the future of such legislation?<\/p>\n
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Source: National Alliance on Mental Illness<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Should everyone have a right to quality mental health care? Consider these statistics: \u2022 Mental health conditions cost the economy an estimated $193 billion dollars in lost earnings each year. \u2022 Mental health conditions are the number one cause of disability and workplace absenteeism. \u2022 Suicide is at a 30-year high. Every day, an average\u2026 Read More: America’s Mental Health »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[24,3,162,22],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislation","tag-legislation","tag-mental-health","tag-statistics","tag-suicide"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t