Article Excerpt: For many patients, coping with mental illness is like being expected to function while dragging around a broken leg. Do that for too long, and you need more than a cast to fix it. When money is tight (and when isn’t it?), governments get nervous about expanding public coverage of health care – even if that funding would mean giving those with mental illness the most scientifically supported care in the same way we would for a heart patient.
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Article Source: The Globe and Mail