Fact Based List:

Mental Health Funding Cuts - Top 10 States

  1. South Carolina 39.3 percent
  2. Alabama 36.0 percent
  3. Alaska 32.6 percent
  4. Illinois 31.7 percent
  5. Nevada 28.1 percent
  6. District of Columbia 23.9 percent
  7. California 21.2 percent
  8. Idaho 17.9 percent
  9. Kansas 12.4 percent
  10. Mississippi 10.4 percent

Source: National Alliance on Mental Illness Press Release, Nov. 10, 2011: Mental Health Cuts; Top 10 States and other State by State Data Released; Medicaid Squeeze is Part of the Crisis
Source URL: http://www.nami.org/Template.cfm?Section=press_room&template...
Notes: The 10 states with the greatest proportion of state cuts in mental health care funding from FY2009 to 2012