The History of Mental Health Policy

Health Affairs

While We Wait co-hosts Avni Kulkarni and Sania Ali step outside the hospital and dive headfirst into the archives to learn about a seismic shift in mental health policy that’s left the health care system scrambling to fill the cracks for decades. They examine words like “parity,” “deinstitutionalization,” and “non-quantitative treatment limits.”

Listen as Sania and Avni go back in time to make sense of it all and trace the roots of the mental health boarding crisis.

The featured guest on this episode is Andrew Sperling, former director of legislative advocacy from the National Alliance of Mental Illness and current senior director of government affairs at Intra-Cellular Therapies.

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