Psychiatric illness and income support.

摘要

To the Editor: In their commentary published in the April 2009 issue of the Journal, Sheldon Danziger, Ph.D., et al. (1) noted that the percentage of Social Security awards to people with diagnoses of mental illness has increased substantially since 1984. The authors raised the question as to whether these increased numbers reflect good or bad policy in the approval of Social Security awards. However, I question the basic assumption that the changed numbers actually reflect Social Security policy or any change in the application of policy.