Who Would Pay Higher Taxes for Better Mental Health? Results of a Large-Sample National Choice Experiment.

ABSTRACT: Policy Points  Public funding for mental health programs must compete with other funding priorities in limited state budgets.  Valuing state-funded mental health programs in a policy-relevant context requires consideration of how much benefit from other programs the public is willing to forgo to increase mental health program benefits and how much the public is willing to be taxed for such program benefits.  Taxpayer resistance to increased taxes to pay for publicly funded mental health programs and perceived benefits of such programs vary with state population size.  In all states, taxpayers seem to support increased public funding for mental health programs such as state Medicaid services, suggesting such programs are underfunded from the perspective of the average taxpayer.

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SUBMITTER: Johnson FR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8452366 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature