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The information asymmetry between doctors and patients regarding the different treatments that are available for various problems, as well as the costs for the treatments that exist.

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Programs designed to better treat patients are shut down to a lack of money.

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High costs of care, related to the inability to quickly access certain treatments and/or technology

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Jacki - Problems with Mental Health Provision

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Jacki - Problems with Mental Health Provision

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- Source of funding
- Politics surrounding social resources/services
- Access to resources by people of low income and people of color
- Early prevention resources
- Potentially too large of a population to provide for

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Insurance is something that is really hard for some people to get that would help them receive the care they need. Even if people do have insurance, they can still be charged an extreme amount of money, which is impractical.

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Privatization of companies creates an issue of the company caring more about profit versus actually caring about the outcomes of care that should be provided.

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Discrimination against those with mental health challenges that often prevent them from living successfully within society.

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Lack of resources for programs and reforms that eventually leads to termination or delay in help.

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High cost of care, treatment, medications, etc. and lack of access to that health care

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price discrimination

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Mental health care can be considered a luxury because of high costs of therapists, medication, and psychiatrists.

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With our current criteria for diagnostic, we have a healthcare system that prioritizes a operational approach. As a result, we do not have cohesive taxonomy for mental health disorders.

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Affordable and accessible treatment to all of those who need it

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Everyone should have the right to live a healthy life. In other words, money should not impede someone from accessing mental health care.

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Lowered cost of care or governmental support with that cost

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The sustenance and prosperity of programs designed to help people with mental health challenges.

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I think there needs to be better access to supplies and resources for people who really need it, whether that be prevention or after the fact.

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- Enough resources for people who need it
- Effective education about mental health challenges
- More ways for people to access mental health care

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Everyone has access to affordable health insurance that covers most/all of their medical expenses so that these are affordable as well. They should not have to pay more than $1,000 per test/doctor appointment/hospital visits.

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A change to our diagnostic approach by revising the DSM, and other diagnostic manuals, to ensure patient and advocate claims are heard with a move away from an operational approach.

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In order for the information assymetry to be addressed, there needs to be a baseline of necessary information that doctors should provide to their patients regarding treatment options, costs, and any other information that is needed. The information needs to be provided BEFORE actually receiving the care, to not put anyone in the position where debt is accrued unnecessarily and unknowingly.

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More resources allocated to prevention and education surrounding mental health. Integrating mental health education in schools might decrease some of the negative perceptions of those with challenges. And prevention will help provide the resources and help for those before mental health challenges are too extensive to handle easily.

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when a treatment replaces another due to the cost to benefits ratio it can be problematic for the patients that were receiving the treatment that was replaced.

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Providers also being part of the administrative teams of healthcare systems

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There should be guidelines and standards that private companies have to follow when implementing and caring for patients, and there should be consequences for the companies that don't follow those guidelines.

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Allocating money (5% of the budget) towards cost-efficiency research in treatment

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The situation where an individual goes to an emergency room and receives treatment, and then is sent a bill for their care without knowing previously what that treatment will cost. This then creates a problem of people who need care going into debt because they cannot afford to pay for the care they received, and did not know how much it would cost before receiving the treatment.

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The stigmatization that would prevent people to all come to a consensus about the urgency of policy change.

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Public and political agreement in interpreting "positive" (fact-based) information in the "correct" way, aligned with the academic understanding of such information

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Finding agreement on policy details to make the policy or have it pass through to law.

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Disagreement among individuals, budgets being too low to implement these policies, hiring people to train administrations and ensure that these policies are being followed

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- Stigma surrounding mental health
- Politics surrounding social services
- Economic "sticklers" about resources and how to allocate them
- Logistics of allocating resources

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Due to the diverse nature of psychiatric medicine and therapeutic approaches, creating policy to tackle multiple different approaches would require immense work to figure out possible pricing schemes. Moreover, regional diversity poses an issue in allowing universal public health policy (i.e. the mental health issues in a city are not the same as in a rural area)

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Figuring out how much governmental funding will be provided and how to budget that funding. Need accurate assessments to support who needs the funding for services.

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Finding the funds and locations for mental health programs to operate from as well as ensuring the availability of help to anyone who may need it.

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People who have not had a first-hand experience of someone requiring these services are more likely to be more reluctant to spend their tax money on policies that do not affect them.

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Implementing the information assymetry would be difficult in how exactly the information could be put together for all patients and doctors. More explained, it would be difficult to address every single mental health challenge that someone might experience, along with the treatments, medications, costs, and whatever other information goes along with it to be able to distribute and agree on among all doctors.

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Economic division (rich vs. poor)