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Article: Parity for Mental Illnesses
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- June 14, 1996
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I would like to comment on Robert Samuelson's op-ed column
"Hard Call on Mental Health," which appeared in The Post on June 5.
As Mr. Samuelson noted, more people are successfully treated
for mental illnesses today than ever before due to better
understanding of the brain and new medications for illnesses that
were once considered "untreatable." These advances are the direct
result of brain research conducted in the past two decades, which is
transforming the lives of people with mental illness.
In discussing concerns about the cost of implementing parity,
he mentions that actuarial estimates have varied. Indeed, only time
and experience will reveal what the most accurate estimates ...