As Suicides Rise, Insurers Find Ways to Deny Mental Health Coverage

Re:As Suicides Rise, Insurers Find Ways to Deny Mental Healt... by Frondo on Friday May 17, 2019 @01:12PM (#19941550)

I don't know your circumstances, and first of all that is a great and generous thing you did for your friend.

The one place I know of where a housing-first policy has been implemented, Salt Lake City (or maybe all of Utah?), doesn't just give homeless people a set of keys. They do assign everyone a social worker at the same time. The goal is to minimize the risk of what happened to your friend; that isn't good for anyone, including the person spiraling.

It's key, though, to start with a home (and a social worker). The wealthiest country in the world can do that for its people -- and it shouldn't be on private citizens, though that was generous of you.

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Re:As Suicides Rise, Insurers Find Ways to Deny Mental Healt... by dv_dt on Friday May 17, 2019 @01:21PM (#19941622)

A big advantage of institutions is to collect the long term learning and lessons into more effective actions. Trying to handle it individually is admirable, but it's at a huge disadvantage and without experience with multiple cases to know what might work better or worse for various people.

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