The recent passage of a mental health bill by the House of Representatives has caused the state of California great anxiety over how it may potentially have a negative affect for Californians’ who suffer from mental health issues, and or other psychopathologies such as addiction to drugs/and or alcohol. Specifically the house bill seeks to mandate health insurance companies “to cover treatments for addiction and mental conditions the same way they provide for physical illnesses.”
While the law ostensibly may well benefit many throughout the nation who do not currently have adequate mental health coverage. Experts in the mental health field point out--that while the bill may be well-intended, the unintended consequences of the legislation “could a have a negative impact by overriding laws in California, where health plans already are required to cover major mental illnesses.” To that end, as “the federal bill would not mandate plans to cover mental health as they are required to do in California,” the law “could raise rates and cause some employers to drop mental health coverage altogether.”
Link:http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/06/BUHJVE7JV.DTL
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