Peterson on the Struggle to Provide Mental Health Care

Mark A. Peterson, professor of public policy at UCLA Ruskin, commented on the California Health Line article On the issue, state healthcare providers have experienced providing appropriate mental health care to their patients. Although this article focuses on Kaiser Permanente, the state’s largest commercial health plan is not only among health plans experiencing a shortage of health workers combined with existing rarity. Please note that. Other issues include therapists who refuse to sign with insurance companies and persistent bias in their health care systems against mental health services and patients. Peterson, UCLA Health Policy Research Centersaid that political science, health policy, management and legal appointments could oppose the “unlimited nature of treatment” to focus on the final line of health care plans. For insurance companies, Peterson said the question, “How do you put in place the appropriate limits?”