Mental Health Roundtable
May 23, 2025
"I recently met with mental health advocates and insurers during Mental Health Awareness Month. We’re spending billions on treatments—but too often, we don’t know if they’re working. That’s unacceptable. We’re building an outcomes-based system that delivers real results for patients, families, and employers alike." - Sec. Kennedy
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Hey, this is Robert F. Kennedy Jr., your
HHS secretary. And May is mental health
awareness month,
and today we had an amazing meeting with
many of the mental health advocacy
groups and many of the mental health
insurance plans. A big frustration among
both the employers and the advocacy
groups is the lack of any coherent
outcome oriented treatments, the best
treatment and outcome. So they're paying
billions of dollars for mental health
treatment with no real metrics on
whether it works or not. We do not have
a proper incentive system or the
knowledge to be really able to reach the
people who need mental health treatment
and give them cures that we have
confidence in. Innovative ways to solve
these issues. We're determined now over
the next four years to change those
incentive systems to make them more
outcome oriented and to deliver for both
the employers who want to take care of
their employees, mental health advocacy
groups and for all the people who are
concerned who have family members or
themselves suffering from mental illness
to get them the best and most effective
treatment and allow them to flourish.
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