| I’ve been through this situation with family members. I understand the frustration and agony. I also understand the hesitancy to pay for two months at a “retreat-like inpatient psychiatric facility.” In publicly funded system, it’s likely facilities like this would not exist or would be strictly private pay. I’m not aware of any country that makes such a thing available on short notice like this. I also understand the frustration, as often times facilities like this are all that exist in terms of medium-term care. And often times some of their services are at least formally in-network. The understanding is you pay for it by selling your house. We’ve been tempted to do this (sell our house), but been advised against it - but the reasoning in our case is patient specific. I wish insurance was clearer about what covered and what isn’t. I wish we had more mainstream (not retreat-like) medium term care places. Maybe I’m misreading the phrase retreat-like. But id this isn’t something a public system would pay for, it seems inappropriate to blame a private system to not pay for it, unless it’s clearly in the wording. Regardless, mental health care in America stinks, and you can always argue over the details. |
> In publicly funded system, it’s likely facilities like this would not exist or would be strictly private pay.
In France, 80% is paid by the public healthcare if a psychiatrist greenlit you, which still make you liable for ~30€ per day in a room you share with another patient (and if you want a private room it's ~90€/day out of pocket) (maybe the prices around Paris are a bit higher though, i'm a country boy)
[edit] more accurate numbers, i had to check and correct them. Also, 30€ per day also covers medication if needed and a spa session