Mar 30, 2026 | 11:00 AM
An Eastern Wisconsin Congressman led a conversation regarding mental health late last week.
Rep. Glenn Grothman, who is the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services, delivered the opening remarks at the roundtable discussion called “Examining Mental Health in the MAHA Age.”
In his statement, he noted that “Over the past two decades, the United States has dramatically expanded access to mental health care. In 2002, about 27 million adults received mental health treatment. By 2024, that number had grown to nearly 60 million. And yet, outcomes are moving in the wrong direction.”
He pointed to rising depression and suicide rates, and praised the Trump Administration’s Make America Healthy Again Commission’s focus on over-medicalization and its direction to evaluate pediatric prescribing patterns, which he says “suggest that some of these questions are beginning to be taken seriously.”