In this weekend’s Your Money column, I have tried to conduct a survey of insurance coverage for mental health in the United States, with a focus on issues of primary concern to parents and their children.

While coverage is in many ways more widespread and potentially less costly than it was a few years ago, that may not make it any easier to persuade insurance companies or employers to cover certain treatments or find practitioners who take your insurance, have offices nearby and are not booked solid indefinitely.

If you have a child with a mental illness or who is on the autism spectrum, what’s the single biggest area of improvement (if any) that you’ve seen in recent years, and what’s the biggest challenge you still face?

Article source: http://bucks.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/21/the-gaps-in-mental-health-care-and-coverage/?partner=rss&emc=rss