Lowering Bills and the Expectations
- Share via
In “When Women Turn to Matters of the Mind” (April 19), it was suggested that loss of status and remuneration will accrue to care-givers who conduct psychology-related therapies due to the increase of female practitioners in the field.
A drive toward more status and ever heftier remuneration is destroying the health-care system in this country. If fees have been lowered among some psychotherapists, it reflects the fact of this economic period and may point the way to a constructive trend--if we can consider long-range consequences.
What would be wrong with all health-care related providers charging somewhat less? Maybe it would be the most professional kind of behavior given the present crisis if all who send bills lowered their expectations of what they are meant to receive.
Presumptuousness about one’s due has ruined enough congressional careers to provide a vivid example of the result of grandiosity about status and remuneration.
ANN MARIE POWER
Licensed Marriage, Family and Child Counselor
West Los Angeles
Sign up for Essential California
The most important California stories and recommendations in your inbox every morning.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
