The Oct. 31 Health & Science article “Medicare to expand mental health care options” explained how older adults who are anxious about health or depressed by the loss of family have significant difficulty finding professional help. The article largely attributed this issue to low payments and bureaucratic hassle that cause almost half of behavioral specialists to opt out of Medicare.
Advocates for expanding Medicare acknowledge that the bias around health care for older adults limits appropriate treatment and will require much more than what Congress is capable of. Though I agree that expanding Medicare into several needed fields is not a one-solution process, I find the practice of behavioral specialists determining the provision of their services solely based on a patient’s health insurance status immoral. Access to patient care should not be determined by age, background or disability.
Need-blind admissions colleges that disregard financial status when admitting students end up admitting more students who need financial aid than colleges that don’t have this policy. Scientists are blinded to treatments that subjects receive in research experiments to avoid tainting or biasing results. In the same way, every American should be entitled to health-care access, unconstrained by their insurance. Health care is a right, not a privilege.
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