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well the midterm elections are coming up tomorrow and one topic of discussion is

universal health care but does this thing actually work I brought a very

special guest to discuss the topic what is everybody this is Chris from the

rewired salt where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution any

field new to my channel my channel is all about mental health so I make a ton

of videos to try to help you improve your mental and emotional well-being but

also to help you be more aware of what's going on especially when it comes to

healthcare and YouTube channel so go check it out although she talks about

all things mental health anyway she's from the UK so I was like hey girl like

we're having a point of debate for years now is universal health care in the

United States with some questions about universal mental health care in the UK

so before I let Kay take it away I just want to talk about some things because

again I just want you to go out and vote if you're watching this video you care

about mental health care like go out and vote support whatever you think is best

I don't care who you vote for but go vote but on my channel I just want to

kind of make you aware of some stuff going on in the United States when it

comes to mental healthcare so something to take into consideration is the

Affordable Care Act okay so the Affordable Care Act is is amazing like

there are some things that might need to be tweaked with it but with the

Affordable Care Act they were quiet they were quiet

insurance companies to cover mental health treatment as well as addiction

recovery treatment now depending on what insurance plan you have and how much

they cover that's a whole different story but there's a lot of people who

are trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act but we need to realize that mental

health care is part of that so if that gets repealed there's a chance

no mental healthcare oh no something to take into consideration - is the

out-of-pocket costs like me personally I have had really good insurance for the

past few years really really good insurance I still have a very large

doesn't always you know sometimes I can't even do it like so when it comes

to physical healthcare like I couldn't even go you know do my sleep study

because it would have cost about two thousand dollars out-of-pocket so I'm

just trying to lose weight to work on my sleep anyways we've talked about you

know price availability so anyways I just want to talk a little bit with the

mental healthcare system in the UK she also works in mental health care

treatment so she's a discusses Lowe and welcome so Chris has kindly asked me to

guest on his channel to talk about universal healthcare so I'm gonna be

talking about my experiences with the NHS I'm sure you've heard of it

something that we have in the UK I also work for the NHS so I kind of have

experience kind of being a service user but they call that or patient and

working for the NHS in inpatient acute services so yeah if you don't know who I

am hi my name is Kay I'm also known as

bipolar pug here on YouTube and I make videos all about mental health bipolar

but other stuff as well so Chris has got some questions he wants me to answer

about universal health care and what it's like is any good hmm yeah so chris

says he basically only has three questions which is good um okay so

question number one is how long does it take to see a therapist or psychologist

now this is a really tricky question because it really really varies in yet

in the NHS I've known people to wait over a year first psychological

treatment some people have left some people wait up to four years for

psychological treatment and some of the extreme cases yeah I feel like within

the NHS within adult services it is quite difficult to get psychological

therapies and the kind of therapies that they focus on a kind of short form

therapies like CBT called behavioural therapy which can be really

helpful for some but sometimes they only offer ten sessions sometimes they only

offer phone calls within like the well-being service enough of

psychological therapy that they offer is cat therapy which again is quite a short

form therapy with in child and adolescent mental health I know they

offer some more long-form therapies because there's a lot of focus on early

intervention family therapy is quite popular but a lot of the times the only

things that they will offer is very short structured forms of therapy no

kind of long term person-centered therapy I tried to get therapy for quite

a long time if my bipolar disorder I've had CBT on the NHS and I found that it

was helpful but it kind of didn't really address anything underneath the surface

so I actually went private and I'm currently getting a CT therapy which is

acceptance and commitment therapy and it has changed my world like it's changed

the way that I view my behaviors my thoughts my feelings kind of being able

to observe situations kind of outside of that sphere rather than directly kind of

acting on how I'm thinking and how I'm feeling and I've been getting that

therapy for over a year now and I'm still getting that therapy and that's

not something that the NHS offer however it really depends sometimes on where you

live on what kind of therapies that you get and how long you get them for so

it's kind of yeah it's kind of tricky I know a lot of the time for PTSD therapy

and EMDR which is the eye rapid motion bill you the one where you kind of

relive traumatic experiences and kind of work through them I don't think that's

available in the NHS something that they're really quite hot on at the

moment is DBT therapy however they don't offer that independently they tend to

offer something called a steps group so that's a group program of DBT therapy

and a lot of people with you know emotional dysregulation EPD BPD what

they call it in America have really responded to that but

one-to-one therapy zuv Annie NHS are quite hard to come by with any NHS they

try to do a lot of groups so like psycho-educational kind of stuff rather

than one-to-one therapy a lot the time but you know someone else could come and

say look I have a long form of therapy within the NHS but that's not something

that I really hear about a lot yeah that was a very long-winded answer to that

question but I hope that's helpful okay so number two what's the admissions

process like for emergency mental healthcare again I I don't like to slag

off the NHS because the NHS is a really valuable thing and without being

hospitalized numerous times throughout the years because my bipolar disorder I

would not be alive or it wouldn't be able to afford treatment might be in

like ridiculous amounts of debt so it has worked for me however the admissions

process for emergency mental health care is really tricky so the first point of

call would be to go to A&E or the emergency room and you'll wait in a

really stressful environment for a really long time one of my experiences

as I waited 12 hours to be seen by a mental health professional and they have

something called the mental health liaison teams so they will decide

whether people need to see crisis teams which are amazing it's an amazing thing

that we have of any NHS where people come to our homes every day and checking

on us it's almost like a hospital on wheels where you have professionals come

and chat to you and assess your risk the fingers of an NHS is they try to promote

the least restrictive interventions so they don't like hospitalizing people you

have to be very very very very unwell to be hospitalized

so the first port of call would be to go to the any wait a really long time to be

assessed sometimes they recommend hospitalization sometimes they detain

people under the Mental Health Act which basically means people can be treated in

hospital against their will and they're deprived of their liberty a lot of the

time with an adult mental health care people go informally especially people

that have gone through you know depression suicidal stuff it's not great

and it is used as a very last resort people

being treated in hospital within emergencies I think a lot of the time

with the NHS there just isn't enough staff and resources to go around to help

people that are in crisis people do fall through the cracks and people do die so

but again you know on the other side of it a lot of people are caught by that

safety net and a lot of people are supported by crisis teams and they get

them out that crisis phase and they don't have to go to hospital which is

amazing because you know if you think about it you know if you were sectioned

today think about what you would lose you know your home maybe your pets being

able to see your friends and family what about your job you know so kind of

promoting least restrictive interventions are really great but yeah

like it's it's not amazing emergency mental health care and I think it's the

same anywhere really it's not something that we've really perfected so yeah

that's kind of really how it works okay so the final question is oh boy

would you rather have America's health care system brackets feel free to laugh

your ass off when answering us no the short answer to this is no although I've

had to go private to get my kind of therapy needs map the NHS has met a lot

of my emergency healthcare needs being hospitalized community psychiatric

nurses you know crisis teams all that kind of stuff I would be in so much debt

ridiculous amounts of debt for the amount of times that I've been

hospitalized over the years and yeah the NHS is flawed underfunded in a lot of

ways but it has provided a safety net for a lot of people that have been in

crisis it is not a completely holistic rounded you know care where everybody's

needs are met especially fair pew techniques but it has saved a lot of

lives and I am very passionate about the NHS and I'm very protective about the

NHS but I'm also very aware that the NHS is very flawed and needs more money

basically it just needs more money but so does the NHS as a whole but yeah

sometimes I think mental health isn't as addressed as importantly as some of the

other issues but there is a service there and yeah I'm really I'm really

passionate about it and I think as time goes on and especially in the last 10

years mental health is more of a prevalent thing among a lot of people

and yeah I think it's really important that we promote the least restrictive

practices for people so not putting people in hospital all the time unless

they absolutely positively need it however we are failing a lot of people

who are kind of slipping through the net if that makes sense so yeah I hope that

was helpful my name is Kay again hi I'm also known

as bipolar Park Hill and YouTube please subscribe to me if you'd like to I make

regular videos on mental health and very passionate about it and yeah I hope you

like this little video so yeah take care thank you so much for sharing your

experience with the UK's mental healthcare because these are often you

know what people debate about it you know the long waits and all this and and

yeah it's true it's true like there are longer waits but when I was talking to

Kay after after I watch the video and we were just deeming on Twitter like

something something that's important to realize is is that even in the UK

they're putting more they're allocating more money to physical health care than

mental health care right so one of the reasons I have this channel one of the

reasons I try to get you to help spread awareness is that we need to let people

know like this is a big deal right and we also need to understand there's a lot

of medical conditions like physical conditions that are triggered by mental

health issues for example heart problems based on stress and anxiety you know

other medical issues like more heart issues I just know someone my heart

issues were based on things like depression anxiety like I know and all

of that so if we start putting more funding towards mental health care

you'll start to see physical health problems going down like when I was

talking about in my video about universal basic income like that's

something that we need to realize is that hospitalizations and health issues

decrease as you start to treat mental health right now what argument that came

up in the universal basic income video was where we gonna get the money where

we gonna get money you know you probably can guess but I will say this like one

of the weakest arguments out there is where we gotta find the money for it

like if you look if you look I'm just throwing this out there if you look at

the amount of money we're spending on offensive Wars and our military

especially compared to any other nation right what I would say is like nobody

ever asked where the money's coming from we decided to go to you know do these

offensive Wars or put trillions of dollars into the military nobody even

asks where that money's gonna come from so I just want you to think about that

where's the money gonna come from right but the other thing that I want to talk

about is is okay was talking about the debt right like I don't know about you

but for me being a massive amounts of debt or not being able to for things can

also trigger more anxiety and more depression that's something to consider

okay so she did talk about how there are some long legs

sometimes it takes a lot sometimes the emergency mental health care isn't the

best but I also want you to take into consideration that that Kate also said

she gets private mental health care so by having universal health care because

one of the other arguments is that it would be taking away people's options

right people wouldn't have options but if you look at what the uk's doing

people still have the options so if you don't want to do the you know the

government-funded route you could still go see and I don't know how much this is

converted but anyways like if you think about what a lot of people are paying

for therapy sessions here in the United States with health insurance

it's almost as much so just take that stuff in consideration all right so I

just wanted to bring this topic we're coming over but the midterms are

November 6 there tomorrow and even if you're watching this video afterwards

it's just something to think about okay if you care about mental health need to

understand how who we elect affects our mental health alright baby weighs let me

know down in down in the comments below what are your thoughts about universal

health care mental health treatment if you're from another country that has

universal health care like how much of this was similar to caves experience in

the UK is it different in other places let us know down in the comments below

okay anyways that's all I got for year with this video if you like this video

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or tapping right there alright thanks again so much for watching go out and

vote and I'll see you next time

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Fifteen States Currently Allow Election Day Voter Registration | Heavy.com

For millions of people it's not too late to register to vote.

Fifteen states allow residents to show up at the polls on Election Day, register, and then vote.

Generally identification and proof of address is all that's required to register and vote.

So for millions who want to have their voice heard and ballot counted on Nov.

6, it's not too late.

Known as Election Day registration, the prospective voter must present proof of residency at the time of registration or soon after registering.

A current driver's license or ID card will suffice in all states.

In some states, documents such as a paycheck or utility bill with an address is acceptable for proving residence.

A few states also permit an already-registered voter to vouch for the residency of an Election Day registrant.

Washington D.C.

and 15 states permit voter registration on Election Day with some exclusions, including California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, Utah, Vermont, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

There are some restrictions as to time frame, provisional voting, and place, for example, not all voting precincts permit folks to just walk in and pull a lever; there are in many cases certain counties, communities and polling places one must visit.

But for the person committed to voting and not yet registered in these 15 states, it's not too late.

A number of secretaries of state caution that lines may be long for Election Day registrants.

According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, here's what you need to know about Election Day registration state-by-state:.

California.

California enacted a law that allows for what it calls Conditional Voter Registration.

A resident can "conditionally" register and vote at their respective county elections office up to Election Day.

According to California Secretary of State Alex Padilla, those ballots are "processed once the county elections office has completed the voter registration verification process.

Voters can complete the conditional voter registration process from October 23 all the way through Election Day on November 6.".

Residents can check to see where conditional voter registration is available here and are able to search by county or city.

And, voters in the five counties adopting the Voter's Choice Act–Madera, Napa, Nevada, Sacramento, and San Mateo–can access conditional voter registration at any Vote Center in their county.

Voter's in these counties can find a list of Vote Centers using the My Voter Status Tool here.

Colorado.

According to Colorado Secretary of State Wayne W.

Williams, state law allows residents to register to vote through Election Day.

Residents may appear in person at a voter service and polling center in your county through Election Day where you can register to vote and then vote in person or pick up a ballot.

Statewide vote centers.

Any eligible voter can register or update voter registration from any county in the state.

However, the voter's unique ballot style will only be available within his/her county.

A registered voter from an outside county will only receive a ballot for statewide races.

Voters are required to show a Colorado state driver's license or ID card issued by the Department of Revenue, and complete and sign a self-affirmation and affidavit.

Colorado developed its own e-poll book system that is networked to communicate with the statewide voter registration database in real time.

All jurisdictions have access to the system to check that a new registrant has not registered or voted in a different county in the same election.

Find more information here.

On a smartphone text "CO" to 2Vote (28683) for links to election information and voter registration.

Connecticut.

According to Connecticut Secretary of State Denise W.

Merrill, Election Day Registration permits anyone to register and vote in person on Election Day who meets the eligibility requirements for voting in Connecticut and is not already registered, or is registered in one town but has moved to another town.

By law, a person is eligible to register and vote if s/he is an US citizen, age 18 or older, a bona fide resident of the town in which s/he applies for admission, and has completed confinement and parole if previously convicted of a disfranchising felony.

Proof of identity and residency is required.

The applicant must appear in person at the location.

Applicant must, under oath, declare they have not voted previously in the election.

Registrars check the state-wide centralized voter registration system.

The applicant will also sign the ballot envelope confirming they are eligible to vote in the election.

"Election Day Registration is not available at your polling place, but is available at a designated EDR location in each town, beginning at 6 am and ending at 8 pm.

You will register and vote at the designated EDR location in your town.

Please plan to arrive early in the day as there may be long lines.

You must be registered by 8 pm in order to vote.

You will need to provide proof of identity and residency," the secretary of state website reads.

There's more information here.

And here's a list of EDR locations for Nutmeg State residents.

Hawaii.

To register, applicants must provide their Hawaii Driver License, state I.D., last four digits of their social security number, or voter I.D., which will be confirmed when received by the clerk's office.

Applicant makes a sworn affirmation that they have not voted and are qualified to vote.

Any applicant providing false information may be guilty of a Class C felony pursuant to state law.

Precinct polling place or absentee polling place established in the county associated with a voter's residence.

The state of Hawaii Office of Elections notes though that people "utilizing Election Day Registration, you may experience delays.

We thank you for your patience.". Idaho.

Idaho has permitted Election Day registration since 1994.

Voters doing same day registration are required to show a photo ID and proof of residence, i.e.

a bill, bank statement, check stub, or any other document with their name and residence address within the precinct printed on it.

Voters also complete an oath as prescribed by the secretary of state.

Precinct polling place where voter resides.

The Idaho Secretary of State Lawerence Denney provides myriad information for voters to include details about Election Day registration here.

Illinois.

Reminder: Voter registration in Illinois NEVER CLOSES.

You can register up to and on Election Day.

Beginning Oct.