Study: Obamacare helped high-risk young adults get mental health treatment - Vox

Very cool.  Many young adults do not have access to necessary Mental Health care.  Even after President Bush signed the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 there was still an issue of timely care.  The ACA closed the gap.

October 3, 2008

Study: Obamacare helped high-risk young adults get mental health treatment - Vox: "Mental health and substance use problems happen the most during young adulthood. According to a new study in Health Affairs, Obamacare may be helping with those disorders.

Mental health treatment climbed 5.4 percentage points for 18-25 year olds when compared to a similar group of young adults aged 26-35, who were too old to benefit from the expansion of dependent coverage. And the proportion of 18-25 year olds who reported that private insurance paid their mental health bills climbed by about 13 percentage points. This was a substantial change; before the under-26 policy went into effect, nearly 60 percent of 18-25 year olds reported that insurance didn't pay for the mental health services they received."

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