Wanting Mental Health Treatment and Not Getting It
Those people -- an estimated 568,886 adults ages 18 through 64 diagnosed with a serious mental illness, serious psychological stress or substance use disorder at the start of last year -- lived in 24 states that didn't expand
In contrast, 351,506 adults with those same mental health problems got treatment paid for by
The upshot, said
(See the map for the number of people in each state with serious mental health problems who got treatment as a result of
People who don't get treatment for their serious mental health problems often end up in local jails or on the streets and homeless. And that can cost state and local taxpayers in other ways.
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In most states, the AMHCA study found, a majority of the seriously mentally ill who wanted treatment were relatively young -- ages 18 through 34 -- and white. The same was true of those with substance use disorders.
The AMHCA study is derived from federal data, including the
The study is based on people who were diagnosed with serious mental health conditions and had sought help. The population of people with serious conditions who aren't getting help is estimated to be much larger than that.
An AMHCA report published last year estimated that 6.7 million uninsured adults with serious mental health conditions would have been eligible for
Under the ACA,
But a 2012
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