Wellstone-Domenici Act

[azulaco]

I guess I was living under a rock back in October, because I completely missed the passage of the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008. http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/ ( Read more... )

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[pammalamma]

We were really happy when this passed; I think it was attached to the bailout bill. Anyway, I'm not positive that it will have any kind of positive outcome for us, because it's not that all-encompassing. First of all, what it basically says is that the insurance companies have to cover mental illness the same as physical illness, if they cover mental illness at all. That keeps them from setting as many limitations, but they could potentially just all do what my insurance does, which is that it says right in my policy that mental illness is not covered