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cbayer

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Sat May-09-09 06:44 PM
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1. One of the most shameful copay for mental health issues is with Medicare.

While the copays for everything else are 20%, they are 50% for mental health services and have yearly and lifetime limits.

And because the federal government's plan to cover the elderly and disabled in this fashion is so biased against mentally ill people, all the other insurance companies think it's just fine to take the same position.

Lack of parity for the mentally ill keeps people marginalized and maltreated.

Shameful.

Sorry, I just had to get that out.

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