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December 8, 2024

How UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Countless Americans’ Treatment at Risk

Annie Waldman ProPublica

The company is policing mental health care with arbitrary thresholds and cost-driven targets, highlighting a key flaw in the U.S. regulatory structure. The poorest and most vulnerable patients are now most at risk of losing mental health coverage.

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August 16, 2022

Kaiser Strike Begins: California Behavioral Health Staff Walk Out Over Pay, Workload

Cathie Anderson The Sacramento Bee

Two key issues for the workers, all members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers, have been the subject of negotiation: wage increases and the union’s demand to increase the time therapists spend on tasks other than seeing patients.

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