President Biden is directing $2.5 billion in funding to address the nation’s worsening mental illness and addiction crisis, an official from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services tells Axios.
An analysis of U.S. health insurance claims data reveals that in March and April 2020, mental health claims among teens increased as a percentage of all medical claims by 97% and 103.5% compared with the same months in 2019.
