Controlling Insurance Pharmaceutical 
Mad in America
DECEMBER 20, 2023
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.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 24, 2024
We know that depression pills double suicide rates, but none of the 142 references were to any of the many meta-analyses of placebo-controlled trials showing that depression pills increase the suicide risk. 18] Goldney had received “gold” “from a number of pharmaceutical companies.” No surprise there. This is dishonest. 17] Goldney RD.
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Mad in America
JANUARY 6, 2024
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
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
However, psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry, by skillfully manipulating the media, have convinced physicians and the public at large that these psychosocial factors in health are really brain diseases and there are drugs available that will effectively treat those psychosocial factors in physicians’ patients!
Mad in America
DECEMBER 11, 2023
Moreover, the non-scientist MD practitioner is vulnerable to naively accepting the research of others as truth even when the study does not meet acceptable scientific standards or contain adequate scientific controls.
Mad in America
AUGUST 3, 2024
In contrast, psychiatry can point to no treatment that is effective in a scientific sense (in other words, compared to a placebo control or the passage of time). In April 2002, JAMA published a randomized controlled trial (RCT) in which the placebo worked better than both the herb St. Antidepressants? between 1990 and 2019.”
Mad in America
DECEMBER 4, 2023
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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