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[quote=Anonymous]Follow the money conspiracist, I'm still waiting for you to back up your claims:

11:23  Money is fueling the rise in diagnosis, plain and simple. If a doctor codes it as autism, insurance pays. In some states, it's like a golden ticket to services. If they don't, all those therapists out there don't make money.  And parents curtail getting speech therapy, OT, and certainly ABA because the costs become overwhelming. So parents take a diagnosis they don't agree with because it gets their child some therapy.

But there's a very dark side to accepting an inaccurate diagnosis just to get services.  Would you, for example, accept a cognitive impairment diagnosis for a child who is not cognitively impaired? Because hey, they'll pay for services then!  ([i]This makes no sense, PP.  If your kid needs therapy, they need therapy.  You didn’t prove a “very dark side,” you’ve only shown once again that you have non-sensical arguments.[/i])

17:08 It's a fact of life that diagnosis follows the money trail. Developmental pediatricians often just give an autism label with very little testing…When money is involved, no grand conspiracy is needed. Most everyone is incentivized to go on the path that gets money for services for the child.

14:01 The money trail of autism is easy to follow, actually…

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