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By 1880, she had established 110 psychatric hospitals.
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After writing about the living conditions in the asylum following her stay, there was a grand jury investigation on the asylum.
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...But it was added to the category of Sociopathic Personality Disturbances, which was a blanket term for serious mental health disorders and character weaknesses.
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Between the Vietnam War and an economic crisis, the program was never adequately funded.
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The elderly who were presently treated in psychiatric facilities were moved to nursing homes for insurance to cover their stay.
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One year after the law goes into effect, the number of mentally ill people in the criminal-justice system doubles.
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Federal mental-health spending decreases by 30 percent.
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The Mental Health Parity Act of 1996 prohibited large group health plans from putting annual or lifetime dollar limits on mental health benefits that are less than those put on medical/surgical benefits.
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This year, there are about 100,000 psychiatric beds in public and private hospitals. That means there are more three times as many seriously mentally ill people in jails and prisons than in hospitals.
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The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (MHPAEA) added new protections, such as requiring that substance use disorders also have comparable coverage. However, MHPAEA does not require health insurance plans to include mental health/substance use disorders benefits; its requirements apply only to insurers that include mental health/substance use disorders in their existing benefit packages.2
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The Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) builds on the earlier parity legislation by requiring that most individual and small-employer health insurance plans—including all plans offered through the Health Insurance Marketplace—cover mental health and substance use disorders services. The ACA also requires coverage of rehabilitative services that support people with behavioral health challenges.
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This act is aimed to ensure the programs that are treating patients for mental illness or doing so effectively, help states financially to meet these needs for patients, ensure all practices used to treat mentally ill patients are the newest and most effective and increase access to mental health care for all people.