It has been found that the medical insurance companies are unwilling to provide financial cover to the treatments provided to cure autism.

The treatment for autism not just only involves medicinal measures but it also involves wide-ranging educational, behavioral and vocational trainings. The Governor of California, Jerry Brown, has questioned about the exclusion of autism treatment from the insurance plans. To this California Association of Health Plans, answered that covering autism treatment in the insurance list will increase the health care expenditure on the part of the company by $850 million per year.

In reference to the reply of California Association of Health Plans, Mr. Brown states that insurance sector intends to earn profit rather than providing aid to the people. The reason also emphasizes on the need of the interference of the government in the insurance sector, because the private sector was incapable of living up to the expectations of the people and the government as well.

According to a study conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health, the expenditure of treating autistic patients either on medical or non medical grounds amounts to $72,000 every year. The people who are less affected by the condition require a treating expenditure of $67,000 each year.

The insurers have also opposed to cover the treatment for autistic patients, because it involves certain treatments that are not medical like the behavioral therapies. Reacting to this Kristin Jacobson, co-founder of the Alliance of California Autism Organizations stated, "The only people who don't think of behavioral therapies as a medical treatment are insurance companies".