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Do We Really Want Mental Health Parity?
John Goodman's Health Policy Blog [Opinion] Nov. 11, 2013
"One way to keep insurance costs down is through incentives. Patients should pay more of their bill when they exercise discretion and especially where patient discretion is appropriate. In mental health, this principle applies in spades because: [1] the illness is often experienced subjectively, [2] there are often no objective standards for diagnosis or treatment, [3] doctors often exercise enormous discretion, [4] patients also exercise a lot of discretion and [5] patient cooperation is often crucial to any cure."
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