“Suicide is a public health problem, and our findings indicate that increasing access to health care — including mental health care — by expanding Medicaid eligibility can play an important role in addressing and reducing the distressing rise of suicide deaths in our country,” said senior investigator Dr. Laura Bierut, a professor of psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. “Increased access to insurance and to health care providers is crucial, and expanding such access nationwide may help change the direction of these continually rising numbers,” Bierut said in a university news release…[READ MORE]

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