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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 312628" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>Well...if there are no funds? And the agencies close down because the funds run out...where are they going to send these people? </p><p></p><p>Literally...maybe my state and county is an exception but we had/have a huge population of indigent patients who accessed mental heath through these community based programs. Most people who have private insurance...and that includes medicare and medicaid unless it is people with kids who wanted the aides for in home services or people who were looking for therapy....used private psychiatrists because these psychiatrists at these places are not good. I use a private psychiatrist. Some people even use private therapy agencies. </p><p></p><p>Well...so that means most people who were using the new "private for pay agencies" that sprang up were medicaid and indigent patients. Now medicaid is cutting money by the handfuls and indigent is gone. Agencies will be dropping like flies. But there wont be the public state run agencies left behind to take up the slack. Oh we have the buildings but they only have the county and state employees that are there to tell callers how to go get help...but now they cant do that because there is no more help to be had so I guess those folks are out of a job too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 312628, member: 1514"] Well...if there are no funds? And the agencies close down because the funds run out...where are they going to send these people? Literally...maybe my state and county is an exception but we had/have a huge population of indigent patients who accessed mental heath through these community based programs. Most people who have private insurance...and that includes medicare and medicaid unless it is people with kids who wanted the aides for in home services or people who were looking for therapy....used private psychiatrists because these psychiatrists at these places are not good. I use a private psychiatrist. Some people even use private therapy agencies. Well...so that means most people who were using the new "private for pay agencies" that sprang up were medicaid and indigent patients. Now medicaid is cutting money by the handfuls and indigent is gone. Agencies will be dropping like flies. But there wont be the public state run agencies left behind to take up the slack. Oh we have the buildings but they only have the county and state employees that are there to tell callers how to go get help...but now they cant do that because there is no more help to be had so I guess those folks are out of a job too. [/QUOTE]
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