{"id":161,"date":"2015-02-11T20:33:06","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T01:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/traveler\/?p=161"},"modified":"2015-02-14T03:42:20","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T08:42:20","slug":"asd-to-gain-recognition-with-medical-health-insurers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/traveler\/2015\/02\/11\/asd-to-gain-recognition-with-medical-health-insurers\/","title":{"rendered":"ASD to Gain Recognition with Medical Health Insurers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you keep an eye on Capitol Hill festivities, then you probably saw this week that congress has successfully pushed through a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarionledger.com\/story\/politicalledger\/2015\/02\/10\/autism-insurance-bill-passes-senate-floor\/23179583\/\">bill requiring health insurers<\/a> to cover autism detection and treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, the bill hit resistant amongst Tea Party senators. Their argument \u201cwhy not let the free market decide for itself what to cover\u201d speaks volumes of their lack of awareness, empathy, and understanding of ASD \u2013 maybe better to just call it plain ignorance. The reason the free market can\u2019t choose to cover ASD is because it is one of the most misunderstood and disproportionally studied disorders that exists. Health insurers have a huge blind spot and they know looking left or right will only cost them profits that are difficult to pass onto insurance plans. Over the past decade, the detection and treatment of ASD has been slowly creeping into physician fields requirements for new hires in areas such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medworking.com\/jobs\/physician-jobs-internal-medicine.html\">Internal Medicine<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medworking.com\/jobs\/physician-jobs-family-medicine.html\">Family Medicine<\/a>, so I don\u2019t see any reason to fret and marginalize this disorder as cherry-picking or \u201cspecial treatment\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you keep an eye on Capitol Hill festivities, then you probably saw this week that congress has successfully pushed through a bill requiring health insurers to cover autism detection and treatment. Not surprisingly, the bill hit resistant amongst Tea Party senators. Their argument \u201cwhy not let the free market decide for itself what to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4486,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2972,70800],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autism","category-physicians"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/traveler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/traveler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/traveler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/traveler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4486"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/traveler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/traveler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/traveler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/traveler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/traveler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/traveler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}