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PERSPECTIVE

Parity Or Insurance Mandate? The Case For Mental Health Parity In Kansas

The federal law requiring parity of mental health benefits with those for other health conditions is scheduled to sunset in September 2001, as the previous two papers ably describe. Passage of parity legislation at the federal level prompted many states to pass their own parity laws, in some cases with stronger provisions than the federal law contained. If the law is allowed to sunset, then the full burden will be on the states to end the current discriminatory treatment of mental illness, which affects an estimated one in five Americans. In this brief Perspective I describe the efforts in one . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Parity Or Mandate?

 
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Reconciling The Debate

 

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