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Behind the Smiles: Mental Health in South Korea’s High-Pressure Society

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At the same time, the use of psychiatric medicationincluding controlled psychotropic substancesis also climbing. For example, insurance data reveals that propofol usage in medical institutions rose 12% in a single year, with only 15% of it being used under national health insurance coverage. This is a sharp increase from 63.8%

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Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Pharma Marketing and Psychiatric Drugs

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For Part 2, we will be covering reader questions on pharmaceutical marketing and issues with psychiatric treatments including psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy. Was it related to medical insurance or government programs? Moore: The last couple of questions are related to the pharmaceutical industry.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 1, Part 1)

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Cost & Quality After a twenty year or so review of the health outcome literature, combined with my clinical experience as a psychologist and an arranger of behavioral healthcare for large self-insured employers, the above words of wisdom by Mark Twain are certainly relevant to both the quality and cost problems in healthcare today.

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Beyond the Pill Paradigm: Reclaiming Humanity in Mental Health Care

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This change wasn’t because of scientific breakthroughsit happened at the same time as the drug industry was growing, insurance companies were asking for standard diagnoses, and professional psychiatry wanted to be seen as just as prestigious as physical medicine. This shift moves control away from the individual.

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How The Integrated Approach of Virgin Pulse and HealthComp is Changing the Future of Health Equity 

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Commercially insured high-cost claimants represent nearly a third of all healthcare spending, even though they are only 1.2% of commercial health insurance enrollees. A singular healthcare-only view concludes that the person needs another medication to control the now-advanced condition. times as much as other members.

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Context and Care vs. Isolate and Control: An Interview on the Dilemmas of Global Mental Heath with Arthur Kleinman

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Healthcare insurers would much rather pay social workers to do psychotherapy than they would a clinical psychologist or psychiatrist because social workers are a lot cheaper in providing care. and one of the primary reasons I moved was the constant existential anxiety of not having healthcare despite having health insurance.

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Therapy by App: A Clinical Psychologist Tries BetterHelp

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One advantage of BetterHelp is that because the service does not bill insurance, there is no need for clinicians to provide a diagnosis and target therapy to fit the “medical necessity” requirements imposed by third-party payers. For me, it’s quality control,” Wampold said. “Is

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