tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post5458544784453088055..comments2024-03-18T03:28:36.581-04:00Comments on Shrink Rap: SB 558 - Kennedy's Mental Health Parity BillUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-16767379431954723302007-09-14T00:01:00.000-04:002007-09-14T00:01:00.000-04:00Here's a link to the Congressional Budget Office's...Here's a link to the Congressional Budget Office's <A HREF="http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/86xx/doc8608/hr1424.pdf" REL="nofollow">analysis</A> of H.R.1424.Royhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08735111026336537653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-69586892958387321632007-08-18T22:40:00.000-04:002007-08-18T22:40:00.000-04:00There are a couple of glaring problems with this b...There are a couple of glaring problems with this bill.<BR/><BR/>It will encourage insurers to drop mental health and substance abuse coverage entirely instead of offering it at parity levels of coverage.<BR/><BR/>It does not require that HMOs provide out of network MHSA coverage. This means that only the cheapest professionals will be allowed in the network. It also means that if your mom dies ad you're out of state at her funeral and become symptomatic, you're shit outa luck. No out of network reimbursement for you.<BR/><BR/>I'm both a patient an a mental health professional, and this bill looks problematic to me. Companies will be less willing to cover MH/SA and masses of patients will go from inadequate treatment to no treatment at all.Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01653308834045430167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-3784624740532039622007-08-17T12:03:00.000-04:002007-08-17T12:03:00.000-04:00n=1, good question. I moved the answer over to th...n=1, good question. I moved the answer over to the comments for the podcast <A HREF="http://psychiatrist-blog.blogspot.com/2007/08/my-three-shrinks-podcast-30-parity.html" REL="nofollow">here</A>.Royhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08735111026336537653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-4478433032297832562007-08-17T09:18:00.000-04:002007-08-17T09:18:00.000-04:00Couldn't get the podcast, so I apologize if this w...Couldn't get the podcast, so I apologize if this was covered there, but <A HREF="http://universalhealth.wordpress.com/2007/08/09/republican-puts-hold-on-mental-health-parity-legislation/" REL="nofollow">Jim DeMint</A> of SC put a hold on S 558 just hours before the senate recessed.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for posting the suicide and treatment statistics. By any chance do you know if those included military deployed in Iraq/Afghanistan? AMEDD is struggling with <A HREF="http://www.armymedicine.army.mil/" REL="nofollow">mental health</A> issues, and the acting Army surgeon general seems to be tackling them in open air, transparent settings, as evidenced by the prominence of mental health issues on the AMEDD website.N=1https://www.blogger.com/profile/02256479234981292080noreply@blogger.com