Salon.com: Who will care for the crazy? “The benefits provided by insurance companies for mental
illness are starvation rations. Reimbursement to providers for
face-to-face services have been cut in half over the past 10
years. Dr. John Iglehart in the New England Journal of
Medicine described typical benefits as consisting of ‘a
maximum of 20 outpatient visits and 30 hospital days each
year.’ “
