Albert Ellis Quotes
In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. Now they belong to HMOs, and we can only be affiliated with a few HMOs.
Ellis, Albert. All Out! An Autobiography. Prometheus Books, 2010.
Although extremely conservative, Paul was opposed to giving corporations a cut of economic activity just to say that it was private and not public of government run. The corporate HMOs and managed care organizations claimed that they are performing a quality control and money saving service, but there were non profit organizations that performed the functions just as well and did not add on a profit fee for themselves,
This statement, along with {633805}, was made by the President dozens of times. It is a quotation that had more influence on the political status of the nation than most others. Why Obama made such an absolute statement has been a mystery since, but the statement could not possibly have been literally true as long as the insurance companies had the right to cancel existing plans. When they did, they often laid the blame on the Obamacare rules, when the rules had grandfathered them in, but these were policies that the insurance companies saw as not sufficiently profitable in the new health insurance environment. The Republicans and many Democrats castigated Obama as millions of American lost their health insurance despite the President’s oft stated promise.
Albert Ellis was an American psychologist and psychotherapist who founded Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT). He held MA and PhD degrees in clinical psychology from Columbia University, and was certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP). He also founded, and was the President of, the New York City-based Albert Ellis Institute. He is generally considered to be one of the originators of the cognitive revolutionary paradigm shift in psychotherapy and an early proponent and developer of cognitive-behavioral therapies.
