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Saturday, April 02, 2005

is it parity or is it camouflage?

Washington state now has parity for mental health coverage with medical/surgical care.

Yet there is no separation between general psychiatrists and specialty psychiatrists such as those for children. The fee is the same in spite of additional training (not the mention all the additional time it takes to work with kids). But that's another hurdle.

Given the ineffectivenes of current drug-based psychiatric treatments - the number of mentally disabled individuals receiving social security beneifts for that disabilty has doubled over the past 15 years - the major effect of mental health parity will be to accelerate the fiscal bankruptcy of medicare, medicaid and the medical care system in general.

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