Mental disorder help — House could be bringing financial relief
Mental illnesses can kill. Doubt that? Then have a talk with family members whose loved ones afflicted by such a disease committed suicide, or with a few of the many families who lost loved ones in the Virginia Tech massacre. Full Article at Bluefield Daily Telegraph
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This legislation will help remove these unfair barriers and will provide millions of Americans living with mental illness equal and adequate access to health care services, which is long overdue.
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Illness of the brain must be treated just like illness anywhere else in the body
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For too long disparities in many health plans have placed higher co-payments, additional deductibles, and arbitrary limits on doctor visits for mental health services, making it difficult for people to seek care for these treatable disorders
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These physician-owned hospitals are a problem because they're over-utilized. We're trying to end this practice of self-referral
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Why not take care of people before they end up getting into the emergency rooms?
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This is the great civil rights struggle of our time ... And with such wide bipartisan support, we are confident that it's a struggle we're going to win.
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There is simply no basis for discriminatory insurance practices that set arbitrary limits and inequitable cost-sharing burdens on Americans who need mental health treatment
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House bill must be reconciled with a Senate-approved version (S 558)
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I don't think we'll go to conference
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The offsets are counterproductive
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