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No shit. Poor people (who are more likely to have mental health challenges) stop going to therapy if they cannot afford it? Get these scientists a nobel prize
The whole point of the scientific method is to test -- and re-test -- things that are "obvious". Sometimes they are (as they are here). Sometimes they are not. Having certainty and evidence means that it is harder for those who would cut such benefits to pretend as if it doesn't matter.