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Discusses benefits and drawbacks of online therapy or telepsychiatry using online applications such as Skype. Considerations include disconnect because of lack of eye contact, insurance issues, ability to evaluate pathologies that can be observed in person but not so much online,

"unless states carefully regulate the plans that compete in the exchanges and the benefits that they offer, people with mental illness, who typically have higher health care costs, are at risk of receiving poorer quality care."

Report from a conference in Wisconsin

Beginning in 2010, employers no longer have the option of choosing which mental health treatments they will cover for employees.