Mental Health Care for Military Faces Cuts--TRICARE

[Monkeyman]

Affordable mental-health care took another blow last month, when Medicare and Tricare - one of the few health care options for military veterans and their families -reduced amount it will pay providers.

Now Medicare pays on the coast approximately 48 percent of what psychiatrists and psychologists normally charge, and Tricare pays about 45 percent, according to some providers, and are the result of a general 9 percent cut in reimbursement.

As A result, some psychiatrists and psychologist have been forced to drop all people paying for mental health care via Medicare and Tricare from their rolls altogether, because they just cannot afford to keep them on.

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/thesunherald/news/special_packages/renewal/long_beach/17009877.htm

[tbyg52]

1. Support our troops!

More disgusting hypocrisy from BushCo.

(Edited just because I got to looking at "hypocrisy" and thinking I had spelled it wrong--after six years of it, you'd think I'd have the word memorized....)

[Spinzonner]

2. Just say Bush

the words are synonymous

[WePurrsevere]

3. Oh lovely, now those that NEED the help the most

will have a harder time getting and/or affording the help they need and deserve to get. :sarcasm:

Medicare is outrageously out of control... those of us on it are paying higher premium's and getting less and less. There are many things that folks may need and yet are unattainable to many of us without the extra money.

[cassiepriam]

4. I have no idea who is going to treat the vets with PTSD.

Many shrinks have been put out of business long ago by the greedy insurance companies. For many practicing psychology, it became an expensive hobby.