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Mental Health Care In America: Not Yet Good Enough

RICHARD FRANK AND Sherry Glied chose the title Better But Not Well for their seminal 2006 work on U.S. mental health care since 1950. Better But Not Good Enough would be an apt title for this thematic issue of Health Affairs, published with the support of the MacArthur Foundation. The United States has clearly crossed a watershed in the past year, with passage of federal parity legislation finally burying the nonscientific distinction between "mental" and "physical" illness. But to say there’s been progress in understanding these brain disorders—not to mention in the care provided those suffering from them—doesn’t negate . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Susan Dentzer, Editor-In-Chief

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