For Elites Only: Half Of Psychiatrists Won't Take Health Insurance
Thursday, December 12, 2013 - 11:10
in Health & Medicine
A standard joke in the elites of New York City And Los Angeles is that everyone is in therapy - it's possible because they are likely more rich and, it turns out, many psychiatrists are not interested in patients who aren't wealthy enough to not need to use insurance to pay. But Congress, motivated by public outrage at recent mass shootings and their link to psychiatric medications, want mental health care to be covered by insurance and for psychiatrists to have the same standards as government-paid doctors have. read more