One such challenge is mental health. During the 2010s, the Cuomo administration slashed hundreds of beds from the state psychiatric hospital system.

Charlie Health presents research on how mental health stigma affects people with serious mental health conditions—from social exclusion to barriers in employment and care.

Patients seeking mental health care are more likely to be on Medicaid than patients in more profitable areas of care, such as cancer or cardiac treatment.

And mental health stigma doesn't just exist between people; it also shows up in institutional systems like psychiatric care and hospitals, which are the very care structures meant to offer support ...