Considering the likelihood of a FATTER increase in their insurance premiums bankrupting their practices, and that they'd spend the bulk of their time defending themselves, and that they'd be unable to truly take a risk in helping a patient, and that the cost of the insurance would shrink their customer base to nothing, and that more people would go unidentified and untreated...
I disagree with you completely. The "bottom line" is tort law, just as it is with other physicians.
http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes291066.htm Where psychiatrists are employed and what do they earn. Someone with more time could get into this and find out how many of them are government employees! NOTE: Waterbury CT has America’s highest paid shrinks~gotta’ be a reason for that eh