The State of Health Care

The new North Carolina medicaid guidelines for mental health care roll out today. Five years after the state de-institutionalized its mental health care services, there aren’t enough psychiatrists or tax dollars to go around, according to recent reports. And North Carolina is defending itself in a class action lawsuit demanding equal access to mental health care services. So what is a state’s responsibility to mental health patients? And are those responsibilities being met? Host Frank Stasio talks with Kathy Reiter, mother of a child with mental health care needs and plaintiff in a suit against the state for equal access to mental health care; Phoebe Zerwick, reporter with the Winston-Salem Journal; Marvin Swartz, head of the division of social and community psychiatry at the Duke University School of Medicine; and N.C. Rep. Verla Insko. Listener Call-In. (59:00)

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