“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.” The bill, which has struggled in Congress for more than a decade, is named after the leading advocate for equality in mental health care, the late Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone, who had a daughter with schizophrenia. "Illness of the brain must be treated just like illness anywhere else in the body" Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, was quoted in the New York Times, which also reported that supporters of the House bill said it would be a significant assistance to many of the 35 million Americans who experience disabling symptoms of mental disorders each year. Full Article at Bluefield Daily Telegraph