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Too often practitioners learn of coming changes only by chance. Anthem CA Blue Cross may be planning, as of Jan 2010, to manage all out patient mental health
services. The word is they will only authorize 12 sessions to any provider (in or out of network), after which, providers will have to submit treatment plans. |
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A Public Plan Option on a Level Playing Field |
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Rekindling Reform in consultation with
others has been working to define the substance of
what would be a major advance in health reform
through the proposed creation of a "public plan
option" providing national health insurance as an
alternative to the products of private health
insurance companies.
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Public Plan Option on a Level
Playing
Field." You can find the paper on the
website,
www.rekindlingreform.org.
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(The authors) think this paper could go far in
clarifying for a wide audience just how a public
plan might look.
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(They) are circulating this product as a
working paper, with a view to influencing
the debate on a public plan option while people's
ideas are still somewhat fluid. (They) encourage you
to circulate it too.
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(They) will continue refining it, and
welcome your
ideas to that end. Email:
email@rekindlingreform.org
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Revisiting Balanced Choice
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5-18-09 from Mary Kilburn letter to President Obama &
response by Ivan Miller, author of
Balanced Choice.
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What we need is the
provision of health care - not the needless intrusion of
middle men to deny health care and add an unconscionable
and bloated layer of cost. This denial of health care
[not a true market force - just the only way insurance
companies can make the size profit they desire] has
almost destroyed mental health treatment. I am retiring
from 40 years of providing such treatment and have seen
the erosion and substantial destruction of my own and
related professions first hand. Therefore, I am not
beguiled by the insurance industry's offer to cut costs
[minimally] by doing what they should have done in the
first place! This ploy to try evade the censure they
have vigorously earned is insulting to the intelligence
of the American Public. I HEARTILY recommend that your
health care policy advisors go immediately to
www.balancedchoicehealthcare.org to see one
innovative and viable way of combining public and
private resources for a uniquely American solution to
the problem of providing health care.
Mary
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