Ravi Coutinho bought a health insurance plan thinking it would deliver on its promise of access to mental health providers. But even after 21 phone calls and multiple hospitalizations, no one could find him a therapist. By Max Blau at ProPublica.
Ravi Coutinho bought a health insurance plan thinking it would deliver on its promise of access to mental health providers. But even after 21 phone calls and multiple hospitalizations, no one could find him a therapist. By Max Blau at ProPublica.
I read the npr version of this story. Very frustrating to have someone who is asking for help get nothing all the way to their death. Vote to expand Medicare and any single payer system. These are the behaviors of a profit driven system.
“Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets”