Carol, have they told you that Medicare only pays 40% of the charges for mental health and psychiatric related service? That is after the deductable has been reached--
Hesperis, I have been where you are, and I have often said that the financial problems created by the system cause more despair that the medical problems that you have to deal with, and in fact, often keep you from dealing with them.
The lack of support for alternative therapies is particularly irritating, because they refuse $75 dollar visits to chiropractors, homeopaths(find a good one, Hesperis, they can help those allergies in a way no allergist can!!) and a few dollars for vitamin supplements or other preventive items, yet will drop thousands of dollars on questionable surgery and equal amounts on tests that have no therapeutic value--