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ihlr-26412	Crane, Allyson	Racial Disparities in Mental Health Treatment: How Indiana Misses the Mark in Providing Accessible and Quality Treatment Amidst the Coronavavirus Pandemic	2022	27	.pdf	application/pdf	10831	660	58	This bill would have been beneficial for eliminating disparities in the health care system, including mental health care.188 The bill included multiple sections on mental health and the racial disparities currently present.189 Section 604 of the H.R. 6637 discusses racial mental health disparities and how there are gaps in the studies pertaining to those disparities.190 This section would have required the identification of where the research on racial mental health disparities is nonexistent or how research in certain areas of mental health may differ.191 By identifying these gaps, the federal government could have then determined a course of action for filling in those gaps to ensure that the racial disparities in mental health care are being properly researched and identified in their entirety.192 H.R. 6637 further addresses racial mental health disparities in Section 605.193 Section 605 identifies the competency level of health professionals and their ability to properly address the racial and ethnic disparities in mental health care.194 Because discrimination in mental health treatment is so prominent, the accessibility of mental health care is just the first of many obstacles people of color must face when they are in need of mental health treatment.84	cache/ihlr-26412.pdf	txt/ihlr-26412.txt