Increasingly, HMO's (health maintenance organizations) find themselves wrestling with the moral implications of their allocation of resources. By what guideline–or guidelines–should they decide between investing in more preventive services and investing in more life-prolonging technology? Or ... How much of their money should they redirect from physical health to mental health?
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I see the increasing polarization between HMO's placement of funds with various health services. I think the matter is that the concept of "mental health" was not truly cared about until recent history in America. (I say in quotes as per before it was rephrased as more a sickness in medical terms, which is a sad ignorance which didn't shift until the PTSD of American G.I's coming from home from the Vietnam war.) I know that the true thing to do is to allocate funding equally to the needs of their clients, but sadly the corporate interests do not reflect those of the people. What I see is no moral regards will be taken past the point of PR. but what eventually can resolve this such as in other nations is a government-mandated furtherment of health care. But we all must wait to see when and where we further that development into fixing a corrupt democracy.