This is a blog for the Mental Health Policy Class at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work.

December 28, 2006

Health insurance companies help block mental health parity bill

Wellstone Action - Wellstone Action Network: "Health insurance companies help block mental health parity bill' by Frederic J. Frommer, Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Aided by House Speaker Dennis Hastert, insurance companies successfully have blocked legislation to make them provide equal coverage for mental and physical illnesses if their policies include both. President Bush endorsed the concept two years ago. Today, supporters of the bill are willing to settle for a scaled-back version they hope Congress will pass in 2004. "

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