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Apr 27, 2023Liked by Ben Miller

This is a fabulous article about a serious issue in getting mental health treatment and substance use treatment. The hurdles to quality health care are many. I love how you made sharing your story such an important point, but I'd love more guidance on how to share and where to share. Last year, I called every single one of the 8 providers in my town and was told that none were taking new patients~ except for the last one who only had an intern. Even spending all of that time on the phone calling doctor after doctor after doctor is a hurdle~ and all of the doctors were listed in the insurance company's portal as accepting new patients. Of course, what happens when people can't get the care they need? The situation gets more serious until those people are hospitalized and/or incarcerated~ because, as a country or system, we would rather put the mentally ill in jail instead of working to create a system that catches them before they get that far.

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