OAKLAND, Calif. Bright and early Monday morning, some 2,000 psychologists, therapists, chemical dependency counselors, and social workers will be on the picket line outside Kaiser Permanente facilities across northern California and the Central Valley, demanding that the giant healthcare corporati.
Kaiser doctors, therapists and patients complained they re stymied from seeing mental health patients in a timely manner by the hospital giant s deliberate understaffing.
California's Senate Bill 221, which passed the state legislature with a nearly unanimous vote, requires health insurers across the state to reduce wait times for mental health care to no more than 10 business days.
Many Americans with mental illness report waiting weeks for care, even for serious depression or suicidality. Now California has a new law for insurers, limiting those wait times to two weeks or less.
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