The Last Week Tonight host digs into the failures of the US mental healthcare system, which drives people to homelessness and jail
ohn Oliver delved into the woeful state of mental healthcare in the US, which has only been strained more by the spike of mental health concerns during the pandemic. In 2020, four in 10 Americans have reported symptoms of anxiety or a depressive disorder, compared with one in 10 in 2019. “It may help explain why for that one month last year, everyone on the internet suddenly started singing sea shanties,” the Last Week Tonight host said on Sunday evening.
“Wow, ‘I couldn’t find a Black man for my life’ isn’t something you expect to hear about finding a therapist,” Oliver said. “It’s something you more expect to hear about the crowd on January 6th or all 10 seasons of Friends.” Insurance companies have also overturned coverage in the middle of treatment; Oliver pointed to the case of one Ohio family left on the hook for $88,000 of their own money after insurance deemed inpatient care for their suicidal teenager to be “medically unnecessary”.
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