We need your help to support these proposed changes to Medicare: Contact your Senators today and urge them to contact Senate Finance Committee leaders Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and Ranking Member Charles Grassley (R-IA) to advocate for improving the Medicare package.
Tell them that we NEED PARITY for cost sharing for outpatient mental illness treatment; improvements to Medicare Part D to include a broad coverage of medications to treat mental illness, including benzodiazepines, and a moratorium on regulations on the Medicaid Rehabilitation Option.
Go here, it's so easy: http://capwiz.com/nami/issues/alert/?alertid=10587836&type=CO
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Also:
Millions of Americans with mental disorders do not have equal access to health insurance. Many health plans discriminate against these people by limiting mental health and substance abuse healthcare by imposing lower day and visit limits, higher co-payments and deductibles and lower annual and lifetime spending caps.
Mental Health America and is local and state affiliates support comprehensive health insurance parity legislation, which would ban these practices by requiring the SAME health insurance coverage for mental disorders as physical disorders.
Above copied from: http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/go/parity
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