These mega corporations, Optum Health is just one of them, they see that writing on the wall and they go, we can't survive this because mental health, you know, The largest payer of mental health in the country is the United States government through Medicaid. So they start shuttering clinics, dozens of them across the country. Here in southeast Wisconsin where I am, two of them got closed. Red Oaks facilities owned by Optum Health. (26:00–26:06)
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