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Mental Health

The Sunset Of Federal Mental Health Parity

PROLOGUE: Well shy of an overwhelming political mandate and unsupported by verifiable cost estimates, the Mental Health Parity Act of 1996 was a skeletal and partially symbolic victory for its advocates. The direct impact of the law’s minimalist provisions has been so slight that onlookers might be tempted to wonder what all the fuss is about when Congress takes up the question of renewing the parity law before it sunsets this fall. But two essays and a state legislator’s perspective here help to explain that the federal parity law has had a powerful influence on how state mental health policy . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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