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10-06-2008, 05:55 PM
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20081006/news_1n6mental.html
October 6, 2008
WASHINGTON – More than one-third of all Americans will soon get better insurance coverage of mental health treatment because of a new law that, for the first time, requires equal coverage of mental and physical illnesses.
The requirement, included in the economic bailout bill signed by President Bush on Friday, comes after 12 years of passionate advocacy by friends and relatives of people with mental illness and addiction disorders. They described the new law as a milestone in the quest for civil rights, an effort to end insurance discrimination and reduce the stigma of mental illness.
October 6, 2008
WASHINGTON – More than one-third of all Americans will soon get better insurance coverage of mental health treatment because of a new law that, for the first time, requires equal coverage of mental and physical illnesses.
The requirement, included in the economic bailout bill signed by President Bush on Friday, comes after 12 years of passionate advocacy by friends and relatives of people with mental illness and addiction disorders. They described the new law as a milestone in the quest for civil rights, an effort to end insurance discrimination and reduce the stigma of mental illness.