Originally Posted by PNWFlyer

the unfortunate reason for this is the number of fellow pilots that would fake mental illness so they can sit at home and get paid. It’s not like a broken bone where you have proof. Insurance companies hate mental illness, there is no set timeline for when you are better so they try to limit coverage to a set time regardless of your progress. I have a kid that spend 2 years in a residential psychiatric faculty. I was told insurance would only pay for 3 month, luckily. They paid 18, but that was an anomaly.

we spend 747 Billion dollars a year in this country to keep grandma alive for 6 extra months. We spend nothing on mental health care.

that’s all I have to say about that.