position · 2026
Mental health and substance-use care
Salinas supports expanding access to mental health care, including culturally responsive services for communities that face barriers. Her HOPE and Mental Wellbeing Act would provide Medicare and Medicaid recipients with three free behavioral health visits each year. She has also introduced two bills to expand peer support programs for mental health and substance-use issues.
Context: The three free visits are proposed in the HOPE and Mental Wellbeing Act; the passage does not specify the details of the two peer-support bills.
In their own words
would provide three free behavioral health visits per year for Medicare and Medicaid recipients
The source
Published: Original date not established; campaign context manually checked
Retrieved: 11/10/2026