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Experts and a former patient tell subcommittee U.S. mental-health spending hasn’t delivered better outcomes
Summary
A congressional subcommittee heard experts and a former patient argue that rising mental-health treatment and spending have not produced better population outcomes, highlighting overmedicalization, enforcement gaps and calls for better tapering guidance.
The subcommittee on health care and financial services convened an informal roundtable to examine why the United States is treating more people for mental health conditions while population measures of mental health worsen.
The hearing’s witnesses — David Hyman, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute and health-law professor; Sally Satel, a practicing psychiatrist and senior fellow at AEI; and Laura Delano, founder of the Intercompass Initiative and a former patient — sketched a broad diagnosis: larger treatment volumes and higher spending have not produced measurable population…
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