Over the past decade, the trend toward proprietary ownership of insurance and delivery systems has accelerated. Investor-owned managed behavioral health firms currently control access to more than 100 million lives. The success of parity bills in federal and state legislatures reflects a growing political awareness of the importance of mental health care. First of all, the irrational tie between employment and health insurance coverage is terminated. Instead, the system is financed with taxes specifically earmarked for health care.
All funding is held in a health care trust fund.
This revenue replaces the current expensive patchwork of health insurance premiums, Medicare tax assessments, VA allocations, etc. The health care trust fund supports an annual global federal health care budget. The federal government then allocates funds to the states according to actuarially predicted health care needs. The state subdivides this allocation into its components, one of which is mental health care services. This may sound complicated.