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A 15 page paper discussing the 2001 Mental Health Equitable Treatment Act and possible ways of effecting social change in favor of adopting the act's requirements for parity in health insurance payment for both mental and physical healthcare. The most liberal among us would cling to the view that all should be served despite cost, but the moderate liberals of today realize that cost issues do exist, that no faction has unlimited financial resources and so must make choices. Conservatives tend to look at what can be done with the funds available, considering cost issues first. An astute cost-benefit analysis should be able to lessen the fears of conservatives while bringing the most liberal to a point of fiscal reality. When that occurs, then each side should be freer to indulge in creativity in formulating other and valuable options that as yet have not been voiced. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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15 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSmenHlthPar.rtf
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The 2001 Mental Health Equitable Treatment Act has been in Congress for some time, and efforts in September 2001 to schedule a vote on the bill did nothing but
raise further objections to it. The current bill is meant to replace the "Mental Health Parity Act of 1996, which expired Sept. 30, and expand it by bringing insurance
coverage for mental health benefits into full parity with coverage provided for medical and surgical benefits" (Landa, 2001; p. 8). In essence, the
bills purpose is to force insurers and other third-party health care payers to treat charges for mental health care in the same manner that they treat charges for physical health
care. This bill would end the "separate but equal" mentality under which these paying entities have operated for years, much in the same way that Civil Rights legislation ended
the legality of "separate but equal" approaches to public services and private-sector business in the 1960s. The bill was authored by Sen. Pete
Domenici (R, N.M.) and Sen. Paul Wellstone (D, Minn.), providing evidence of the bipartisan support for the bills basic ideas. A Domenici spokeswoman has said of the bill, "This
is still very much on the burner as far as an issue we want to see addressed before we recess" (Landa, 2001; p. 8).
Current Status in Policy It has been said that one of the reasons the American political system has been so successful
is that one party initiates social programs while in control of the government and then the other comes in to balance the budget afterward. Politicians involved on both sides
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