Being human is not a condition in need of a cure.

Insurance should cover effective and appropriate treatment for anorexia nervosa, which may or may not be residential care, for a particular patient. Adding coverage for any medical illness according to category (e.g., residential care) is usually a bad idea.

There is in fact a powerful reason to scrutinize the psychology field: we are in the midst of a mental illness epidemic. Office visits by children and adolescents treated for the condition jumped forty-fold from 1994 to 2003.

Arizona's remarkably progressive involuntary treatment laws might have allowed Loughner's school to act. They permit involuntary evaluation and treatment of a person who desperately needs it.

Altering public attitudes toward the mentally ill depends largely on whether they receive treatment that works.

New data show that health spending over the past several years has been normalizing toward the rate of general inflation, rather than growing higher and higher, as had been the case almost continuously since the 1970s.

There is substantial disagreement in the policy community about the ability of private insurance to cover the treatment of mental health conditions. Some argue that companies designing health insurance benefits have a long-term and deep-seated bias against including coverage for mental health, a bias that can only be corrected...

What responsibility does an institution have to the wider community when it has identified a deeply disturbed individual?