Telehealth Could Be a Fix for a Mental Health Care System Rocked by COVID-19

Telehealth Could Be a Fix for a Mental Health Care System Rocked by COVID-19

mental healthcare at America was already a problem long before Kovac came along [Music] the emergence of this new virus and issues around social isolation and Quarantine II people being nervous about their economic security and their health has created a whole new surge of demand for mental health services unlike what the system has really seen before in the last few weeks and months the US government moved quickly and they started making it possible for people to use teletherapy and video based chats with their own therapists in order to give more people access to care in a quick fashion and a lot of insurers have followed suit adding some new free services covering co-pays for mental health in a way that happened before if they’re starting to feel depression and anxiety or substance of these problems that may be new to them or maybe aggravated by the isolation they’re feeling so there’s been a lot of positive momentum companies like talk space are seeing a 65% surge in demand for their services there are a lot of things where the mental health care system is starting to open up but also ways that it needs to figure out how to reach patients as coded and continues and these social isolation requirements really weigh on the way that other forms of health care provided America you

“Mental health care in America was already a problem long before Covid came along.”

Bloomberg News reporter Cynthia Koons describes the unprecedented crisis facing a country where over a quarter live alone.

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