Senate passes mental health bill
Bill addresses insurance coverage and provider availability
By Shira Schoenberg on
SEN. JULIAN CYR has struggled with anxiety and depression since childhood. As a boy who was gay, he was bullied in school, had panic attacks and developed an eating disorder.
Therapy helped him manage his anxiety. But Cyr still cannot get his health insurance to cover his outpatient mental health care.
“I’m a pretty savvy consumer,” Cyr said at a press conference on Thursday. “If I can’t figure out how to navigate through these barriers in accessing care through this broken system, imagine how many other people in Massachusetts can’t get the help they need.”
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