New Health Insurance Law
In October of 2008 the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 was signed. The new law has made medical history and a huge impact on health insurance. The new law requires that health insurance plans (of groups more than 50) must use the same benefits for mental illness and substance abuse as they do for any illness.
This law means that people with a mental illness or substance abuse claim no longer has to worry about stricter limitations and more out of pocket expense. they can expect the same benefits as if they were going to the doctor for allergies or diabetes.
We will have to wait awhile to see the changes take place. The new law will not start until January 1st of 2010. One of the laws namesakes, Pete Domenici a retired Republican from New Mexico took personal interest in the law. He has a brother and a daughter who suffers from mental illness.
Domenici believed that the huge out of pocket expenses he saw his brother suffer with was a huge inequality. He does not believe that the healthcare system does not look at mental illness as a defined illness, in return not treating suffers as sick individuals.
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