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Irish_Dem

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6. Managed care deliberately wiped out mental health providers decades ago.

Reply to Ocelot II (Reply #2)

Sat Mar 11, 2023, 12:23 PM

Mar 2023

The insurance companies refused to pay psych providers with all kinds of made up restrictions.
They knew the psych community was not powerful enough to fight them.

Many went out of business. Only the very prudent and small overhead psychologists survived.
And psychiatrists retrained in other medical specialties.

So we now have a severe shortage of psych providers.

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