3/8/17
Rep Joe Kennedy III, partial transcript:
…it was the combination of mental health parity and the ACA that included mental health benefits as part of the essential health benefits package. Parity just says that if you offer mental health benefits they have to be offered at the same way that physical health benefits are. It doesn’t mandate the offering of mental health benefits. With a combination of the repeal language that we see on page 8, means that mental health benefits are not required now by federal law. They’re up to the states to actually impose.
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