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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter  Email this author | Email this entry |
Also nudged into the background by the Iraq debate last week was a piece of progress for Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy’s signature legislation. A key House committee endorsed the “mental-health parity” bill that Kennedy and Rep. Jim Ramstad hope to see enacted this year. The legislation would require insurers to cover mental illness on an equal footing with physical ailments.
The big majority vote for the bill by the Education and Labor Committee was a step toward full House consideration. But two other panels must also act, so House debate on mental-health parity is not expected before Labor Day. Action on the Senate version of the bill, sponsored by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and others, is also pending.
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