Doctors can’t afford to take what they are paid by the Government.”
In Texas psychiatrist and psychotherapy Medicaid rates for kids covered under a United Behavioral Health are much higher than if that same doc sees a kiddo whose parents have UBH coverage for which they or their employer pay. Plus the employer and individual plans have a high deductible and always a co-pay. Medicaid kids have neither. It’s the taxpayers in this case who take it in the pocketbook, not the docs.
The moment the Government got involved in Healthcare was the beginning of the end of Affordable Healthcare.