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When discussing whether physical and mental health should be considered equally important/insured someone brought up that mental health is less easy to define and changes from culture to culture, but ideas of physical health also differ from culture to culture. Public opinion on healthy weight/diet, smoking, hygiene, and even what one should do about more serious physical illnesses like diabetes, ulcers, and cancer vary across cultures. But we don't take this into account when considering whether physical illness should be insured, we are pretty stead fast in trusting our view of physical illness because there are all kinds of scientific experiements and facts backing this view. This is why I feel continued research is essential, even if it may lead to putting some people in boxes they don't feel they fit in, because more "facts" will lead to more funding, more research to finding less wrong boxes...