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> Lauren Singer, who worked for six months at the front desk of Colorado’s Highlands Behavioral, said people who were waiting in the lobby for an assessment would ask her what it would entail. “I would frequently get yelled at for overstepping my bounds and telling them too much about the evaluation process,” Singer said. A button behind the receptionist’s desk controlled the lock to the front door of the facility, and, she said, “If someone came in voluntarily, I wasn’t allowed to let them out of the door.”<p>That's terrifying.  Earlier in the article they talked about people coming in for simple depression screening based the hospital's ads, but things like locking the doors behind people who choose to come in are probably keeping a lot of people from getting the help they need.<p>Medical care, especially medical care with an involuntary component, should never be for profit.  The profit motive is just too corrupting.