Mental healthcare (if you want to call it "care" is way underfunded. It starts with our legislators. They have no clue and don't care about the mentally ill. They are rich and it is all about where money should go.

I have heard of so many mental health facilities being shut down in my state. It is so sad.

Mental illness still caries a stigma.

It is poorly managed and there is a shortage of psychiatrists who are willing to take the under advantaged population. For instance...Medicaid.

Insurance had to make Mental health a "parity law". It is supposed to be looked at as being equal to medical issues but it is not.

How do I think it could be improved?

If all of our legislators had a mental illness and knew what it was like to be poor.

Good luck. Mental illness and poverty go hand in hand. It is a proven fact.

I think it may never be improved on a fast track. I think it will take years and years for slow implements to occur. If I am a bit cynical, it is because I have lived it for so long.

Sorry that I couldn't be more helpful as I would like to hear some good remedies that are feasible and believable.