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Psychotherapy: That'll Be $100,000. Sorry, No Warranty
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyMy colleague Mary C. Curtis writes that Betty Draper has returned to the therapist office. "Mad Men" is set in the 1960s, and there's a good chance Draper's health insurance picked up 80 percent of that tab, if not the whole shebang. Ah, those were the days. Now, you're more likely to get three visits a year. That is, if you're still employed and even have insurance at all. With real unemployment soaring near levels last seen in the 1930s, I doubt people will be able to pay the premiums offered by private companies. (Public Option, was it something I said?) My colleague Delia writes about ...
Five Things Psychotherapists Shouldn't Do
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyDaphne Merkin's recent essay in The New York Times Magazine about her lifelong search for the perfect psycho-therapist has generated quite a bit of buzz. When I first read Merkin's piece, I was fairly sure that it would serve as another great example of the age-old aphorism "there are two types of people in the world...". On the one hand, I knew that some people would be turned off by this five-page, detailed meditation on Merkin's ongoing relationship to psychotherapy, using it as confirmation that psychotherapy really is just an extended exercise in (pointless) narcissism. On the other ...
Madoff, Health Policy and AIG: Disclosing Possible Conflicts of Interest Is Always the Best Policy
By Joann M. Weiner - Politics DailySecrecy, or more charitably, failure to disclose potential conflicts of interest, never goes out of style, as shown in three very different situations that have arisen in the past year. One case involves a newspaper's failure to fully disclose a writer's family ties to Bernard Madoff in an opinion piece. Another case involves an economist's failure to disclose his $400,000 government contract to analyze health care reform. A third case, and the most important one, involves failure by the Federal Reserve Bank to reveal details of the $180 billion federal bailout of the insurance giant American ...
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