Real, Not Sham, Mental Health Coverage

What do you think of California Judge Joseph C. Spero writing in his decision that psychotherapy is meant to help people, not insurance companies and academia?

This article by Enrico Gnaulati PhD expresses ideas that feel close to my heart and my many years of lived experience as an individual and group psychotherapist and trauma therapist.

"Would-be seekers of quality psychotherapy ought to be reassured by Judge Spero’s remarkably humanistic assertions: “…it is a generally accepted standard of care that effective treatment requires treatment of the individual’s underlying condition and is not limited to alleviation of the individual’s current symptoms.” He added: “…the appropriate duration of treatment for behavioral health disorders is based on the individual needs of the patient; there is no specific limit on the duration of such treatment.”

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"Sadly, current mental health treatment standards stray far from notions of meaningful and lasting changes to a person’s overall social and emotional well-being derived from emotionally-expressive, time-intensive psychotherapy."

https://www.gnaulati.com/refle...ntal-health-coverage

What if symptom reduction signals the beginning of psychotherapy and psychiatry care, not the endpoint?

Is there a human cost to "evidence-based" medicine and mental health care?  How much?