Indigent
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If Bachelet, who has already served as Minister of Health and Minister of Defense, is to succeed as president, she must transform this other Chile, where 18% of the population is poor, and 5%
indigent
.
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They even like Medicaid, even though that goes to the poor and indigent, which you might think would have less support.
I was struck by the fact that depression is broadly perceived to be a modern, Western, middle-class thing, and I went to look at how it operated in a variety of other contexts, and one of the things I was most interested in was depression among the
indigent.
I was really moved by these experiences, and I decided that I wanted to write about them not only in a book I was working on, but also in an article, and I got a commission from The New York Times Magazine to write about depression among the
indigent.
But I think a lot of what they said was connected in some strange way to this distaste that people still have for the idea of treatment, the notion that somehow if we went out and treated a lot of people in
indigent
communities, that would be exploitative, because we would be changing them.
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