Stop Letting Health Insurance Companies Break the Law
The COVID-19 pandemic isn’t the only crisis causing devastation across America. The substance misuse and mental health epidemics have an annual death toll three times greater than the Vietnam War, and every five minutes, an American dies from a drug overdose. This crisis has only worsened throughout the pandemic.
Unfortunately, our current system is built on health insurers profiting off their policyholders, which actively works to worsen this national affliction.
Insurance companies flout the parity laws designed to ensure that mental-health patients (which includes people suffering from addiction) receive the same level of care and coverage as patients suffering from physical health conditions.
This criminal negligence is killing Americans. The government must give parity laws a set of teeth to bring this illegal, inhumane conduct to an end.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/stop-letting-health-insurance-companies-break-the-law?ref=home
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Of course it's nearly impossible to find a mental health practitioner these days. Still.....
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