Poverty can be cause of bad health. It can also be the result of being unable to work due to poor health. It can also be the result of expensive medical treatment.
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If a physician doesn’t take insurance, OR specifically doesn’t accept Medicaid, the probability of that physician treating a poor patient is lower. If bad health may be causing the poverty, isn’t there a moral mandate for physicians to assist?
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Let's be clear here: a private pay psychotherapy practice is the equivalent of a cash-only cosmetic surgery boutique. There may be some business lessons to be learned, but it's not where sick people go to get better.
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Tend to agree but it's a dilemma: b/c we have no pay parity, accepting insurance not feasible for most pvt psychiatry practices, unless bulk of practice is 10- 15 minute med-checks on relatively healthy pts. And in that kind of practice, sick people don't get better either.
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