| Abstract: | It has been argued, most recently by Burrell, that psychologists and other nonmedical practitioners who often reject the medical model when applied to psychological disturbances, are hypocritical for accepting health insurance payments for the psychodiagnostic and psychotherapeutic services which they render. This position is based upon faulty logic, conceptual constriction and fusion, ahistoricity, and an apparent lack of concern for certain social realities. Health insurance is a far broader concept than medical insurance and can legitimately cover the services of dentists, physiotherapists, psychologists, and other health care providers. |
