HealthDay (1/20, Preidt) reported, “More Americans with mental illness and substance abuse disorders got health insurance after the Affordable Care Act was introduced,” researchers found after reviewing “data from nearly 30,000 adults, aged 18 to 64, with mental illness and more than 19,000 with substance use disorders.” Investigators focused on “two time periods: 2011 to 2013, and in 2014.” The findings were published online Jan. 17 in Psychiatric Services, a publication of the American Psychiatric Association. Healio(1/20, Oldt) also covered the study.
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— “Obamacare Covered More People With Mental Illness, Addictions,”Robert Preidt, HealthDay, January 20, 2017.