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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Great to hear all these perspectives. I'm interested in the comment about mental health. My spouse has recently been diagnosed with bipolar after being near an unusual, violent episode at work a year ago and then a really exciting work experience right after that. (It's an odd situation... never had signs of bipolar before that but definitely had a manic episode following these 2 unusual experiences). Anyway, we're not happy with the current psychiatrist, but it sounds like Kaiser might not be an improvement if you have mental health concerns to keep an eye on. [/quote]

Hmm I was the one that posted about mental health not being their major strength. It’s hard to know. I will say that my husband has well controlled depression/anxiety and it’s been totally fine for him - easy to get meds, access to a therapist when he needs it and he did one group. But most therapists there don’t have say, weekly appointments available so it kind of depends on the level of care and how much choice you feel you need. I think it’s hard to access mental health care no matter what insurance you have (even if your insurance typically covers any in network or out of network therapist it doesn’t mean they will have availability for example) and Kaiser does do a good job in the sense that you don’t need a referral, you can just call the line to make an appointment. So if you’re wife’s illness has been well controlled with medicine it may be fine, but I was just pointing out that I pretty much rave about most things about Kaiser I wouldn’t say their mental health options are far and above other insurance options and it does have the downside of slightly less choice at least in theory of what provider [/quote]

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