Seventeen percent of Americans are likely to suffer from a major depressive disorder during their lifetime.
It’s not hard to understand that the wide range of misery inflicted by widespread depression — broken families, unproductive workers — has serious implications for society as a whole.
That’s why advocates for years have been pushing for changes in insurance practices to treat psychological illness as seriously as physical ailments. They won a number of key victories in recent years, notably the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which requires most individual health plans to cover a range of mental health issues.
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