Thursday, July 21, 2005
Mental Health Insurance in Michigan
From the Kalamazoo Gazette:
Mark Reinstein, president and CEO of the Mental Health Association
in Michigan is pushing for his state to pass laws requiring health
insurance to treat expenses incurred due to mental illness the same as
those from physical sickness and injury.
Federal laws require a degree of parity in health-insurance coverage,
but it's "mostly symbolic," he said Tuesday at a Kalamazoo Gazette
editorial board session.
The United Auto
Workers Union, amongst others, opposes the proposed
parity because they fear an increase to their already expensive health
care premiums. Reinstein, however, pointed out that President Clinton's
2001 mandate providing comprehensive mental health and addiction
disorder parity for 9 million federal employees only caused premiums to
rise 1.3%
What does this mean for residents of Michigan? Only time will tell.
tags: mental health, Michigan, health insurance
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