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Does our insurance cover visits to a psychiatrist?
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<blockquote data-quote="Wilson" data-source="post: 1847987" data-attributes="member: 59550"><p>The health industry is the largest industry in the US. Much is for profit. They don't make any money on healthy people. So, diagnosing a "need" is important to cash flow. Its estimated that nearly a trillion dollars or about 1/3 of all healthcare service are unnecessary. Add to that lifestyle choices (correctable), malingerers, and crybabies looking for silver bullets to self inflicted wounds (mental and physical) and that comes out to about 2/3 of spending needlessly. Or about 2 trillion dollars. That's a lot of hamburgers.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2012/09/07/we-spend-750-billion-on-unnecessary-health-care-two-charts-explain-why/" target="_blank">http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2012/09/07/we-spend-750-billion-on-unnecessary-health-care-two-charts-explain-why/</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/11/overkill-atul-gawande" target="_blank">http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/11/overkill-atul-gawande</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wilson, post: 1847987, member: 59550"] The health industry is the largest industry in the US. Much is for profit. They don't make any money on healthy people. So, diagnosing a "need" is important to cash flow. Its estimated that nearly a trillion dollars or about 1/3 of all healthcare service are unnecessary. Add to that lifestyle choices (correctable), malingerers, and crybabies looking for silver bullets to self inflicted wounds (mental and physical) and that comes out to about 2/3 of spending needlessly. Or about 2 trillion dollars. That's a lot of hamburgers. [URL]http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2012/09/07/we-spend-750-billion-on-unnecessary-health-care-two-charts-explain-why/[/URL] [URL]http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/11/overkill-atul-gawande[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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