mental health insurance



Health Reform & Americans with Disabilities (02/20/2010 Web chat)


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Legislative Trends Affecting Parity in Coverage Federal legislative efforts to achieve parity in mental coverage date from the 1970s and have continued through to present times. However, a major parity initiative was included in the failed 1994 Security Act (the New legislation in the United States will mean that health companies will have to offer health coverage on a par with financial and treatment coverage offered for other physical illnesses such as heart disease, diabetes or asthma. The Parity Act of 2007, which has been introduced by Goals for Coverage In contrast, in the case of coverage for health services, companies often set lower annual or lifetime limits, for reasons discussed in the following paragraphs, to protect themselves against costly claims leaving patients and their families exposed to A free collec