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[quote=tabira][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=tabira][quote=Anonymous]Dr. Selassie in Bethesda or Chevy Chase takes insurance, not sure about new patients.

Also, because it sounds like standard antidepressants aren't working, is there any reason to suspect type II bipolar, which is where the manic phases aren't dramatic? [/quote]
Thank you for the tip. Will look into it. 
What is the right diagnosis? That is a loaded question. Kid just went through a neuropsych eval. Got bunch of diagnoses, none new. The psychologist wasn't too sure which are the root causes that triggered or worsened other diagnoses. Clear as mud. Kid was not impressed with the level of due diligence by the doctor. She is super smart and she was right. She wrote a long email to the doc. The doc essentially said insurance pays for only so much due diligence!!

During my search, there was another psychologist I liked with good reputation and a comprehensive approach for neuropsych eval. Couldn't afford her. [b]She doesn't take insurance. I tried to figure out how much the insurance would cover the out of network doc. It was a struggle for a month. Repeated answer from the insurance - they will assess after I file a claim.[/b] Is there another world than mental health care that is more bizzarro?[/quote]

Just want to say I also have experienced the bolded. our health insurance system is a disaster. Families with serious mental health diagnoses become impoverished paying for long term treatment.  Sorry I can't offer more than empathy and solidarity. [/quote]
Ty for sharing.

I don't want to start an ideological war here but allow me a perspective everybody.

As long as most healthcare players are 100% profit driven, and healthcare is one fifth of the GDP, nobody should be wondering why we struggle to keep us and our loved ones healthy and not dead.

Providers/consumers balance of power is completely out of whack. There is no real competition. There is no transparency. Most consumers have no real choice. You have to be somewhere near top 5-10% to have a choice. Seriously, we are between top 10 to 20%, and I am not feeling adequate to meet our daughter's needs. It just breaks my heart to think most folks have it worse. Given the profound uncertainty in life, cruelty of health and healthcare can strike any family/person at any time.

I am all for free market and capitalism, but this is not a true free market. The highly profitable "not-for-profit" hospital systems, insurances, pharma, providers, and every other player in the ecosystem have tremendous power and opportunity. Lately, psych providers have upped their game - local psych MD wants $600 cash for initial and $350 for regular 20 min visit. Why not, people are obviously paying. All these players would be stupid (and punished by wall street, if public) if they didn't squeeze the consumers completely legally (mostly) for maximum profit, although it might frustrate our sense of ethics and fairness. The worst players are only partly visible and unscritinizable - hedge funds and private equity.
This is what we have chosen as a society (or where the politics has gotten us), so we can just scream into the wind forever. Ultra powerful interests that are profiting like it just fine and will make sure nothing ever changes. I am yet to see anybody with the heart, the spine and the might to push back to make it fairer and more humane. In the mean time we fight and loath each other on irrelevant topics.

US has the most advanced, innovative and sophisticated health technology/knowhow in the world. Many of us, quite often, benefit from it. (I know. I grew up far away in a different world.) If only its delivery was more consistent. And not cruel, irrational and inhumane. We thought everybody should be able to use police and firefighters, not only those who can directly pay for it. With healthcare lots of us don't see it that way.

Anyway, I come back to reality. Still trying to keep my kid alive, and relieve her unnecessary suffering. I just have to deal with the system we have. Not the one I want. I would get behind any effort to, may be, you know, fix it.[/quote]
Btw, OP above, going way off topic.[/quote]

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