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- Introduced by Rep. Rebekah Warren (D) on March 17, 2009, to prohibit a health insurance company from applying more restrictive conditions on coverage for mental health and substance abuse outpatient treatment than apply to other health coverage.
- Referred to the House Health Policy Committee on March 17, 2009.
- Reported in the House on November 10, 2010, with the recommendation that the substitute (H-5) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
- Referred to the House Health Policy Committee on March 17, 2009.
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1) Re: 2009 House Bill 4597 (Mandate mental health insurance “parity” ) by bugman on March 31, 2009anytime the government mandates anything, it does so with the intention of backing up that mandate with force. men with guns.
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Dental, optical and hearing coverage are not the issue.
Also, the bill is not to force insurance companies to provide mental health coverage, most of them do.
The bill, as I read it, is to make outpatient services for mental illness coverage no more costly to the insured than outpatient medical service. In other words, make the deductibles and copays the same rate.
What is this (gunpoint) thing? We're talking about health insurance, not warfare.
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Jennybegone, it's too bad that you take bugman's replies so personally. In reading the posts I saw nothing that indicated he wanted any harm to come of the mentally ill, and, in fact, it was you who made the personal attack on him by accusing him of wanting to shoot the mentally ill. That is not the way intelligent discussion is supposed to work. The problem is that you refuse to actually listen to what he says because once you hear he disagrees with you that the government should force insurance companies (at gunpoint) to include mental health coverage in medical coverage, you get defensive and close your brain.
I agree that the insurance companies would end up making more money but not for the same reason. They would lobby their way into the actual writing of the law so they would be able to charge everyone who buys health insurance even more than the actual cost of including mental health coverage, which would be significant on its own. The end result would be that less people would be able to afford health care because of increased costs and less people would have coverage.
No one in favor of this law has explained to me why dental, optical and hearing should not also be covered since they are all medical issues too.
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