Dr. Mark Komrad:

And also in the number of people who qualify. According to a Gallup poll in 2019, one out of four Americans did not seek healthcare simply because they could not afford it. The issue of being a financial burden is relevant to driving the increase in the number of people asking for this and in the thresholds, which are changing as those who prescribe grow more comfortable with doing so. Caution was illustrated at first by referring one out of every three people to a psychiatrist. Now, that number is one out of every 100 people. This is a barometer of how much more comfortable a doctor is, and how much easier it is for him or her, to think of eligibility for any particular patient.