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I knew I recognized it from somewhere, thanks for the context

it's already prohibitively expensive for most people since most insurance doesn't cover it. Doesn't really seem like a solution. Edit: in the US. Can't speak for other nations.

Due to the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008, most insurance does cover it. Depending on the patient's particular conditions there may be limits on the type of care and number of sessions. In many areas there are also practical access problems due to a shortage of network providers who are currently accepting new patients.

https://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/advocacy/federal-af...

There’s a shortage of network providers because the network tends to pay peanuts, they mandate the usage of only a few treatment methods that may not be effective for the client, and make actually getting reimbursed a massive administrative headache (think many hours a week writing billing appeals instead of seeing clients). Medicaid is even worse and pays bottom of the barrel. The restrictions and complications that come with insurance repayment have lead a huge amount of providers to not bill the medical system, for simple personal economic reasons - they can’t afford to feed and house themselves if they have to deal with the lower rates and overhead of dealing with insurance.

If it is covered, can people afford to pay their deductibles and coinsurance every year if they take advantage? Or is it more like "covered?"

It's covered the same way that medical treatments are covered. Some patients have trouble affording those as well.

You're arguing in bad faith, the point is that limiting access to speech platforms is not in the interest of citizens and only serves the government.

This made me wonder, is a conference's choice of which speakers to schedule an act of free speech by the conference organizers?

Is regulation of access to a public square a violation of free speech? What about shutdown of a given public square, knowing there are other squares?

They have enough tanks to squash as many people they'd like in as many town squares as they have, just like everyone saw them do in Tiananmen square.

Wow that’s quite convincing!

> Unschooling works for some, mostly those who have a desire to self-direct. That's not everyone.

Definitely agree, I've also seen a non-zero number of parents using (home/un)schooling as an excuse to basically not parent their children and have intentionally disconnected from those communities

This is very similar to my own experience. Having the freedom to try things out and explore my interests at a young age had a large impact later, and gave me a real sense of personal direction that I see many of my peers lacking.

I do find many of the arguments in this article somewhat nonsensical, but this one in particular hits home.

We did buy the app :)

Cool project, writing a lexer/parser/tokenizer for a simple language was an enjoyable and gratifying experience when I dabbled in the past. It's fun to learn about how those things work in such a hands-on way.

Thank you!! Indeed, it's really fun actually