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Senate Folds Mental Health Parity Into Wall Street Bailout Bill

Posted on October 02, 2008

For those Health Blog readers who didn t manage to read every line of the ballyhooed bailout bill the Senate passed last night, allow us to direct your attention to page 310 (Title V, Subtitle B), home to the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008. What s a mental health bill doing in a piece of legislation designed to grease the gears of global finance? Turns out, it s just a bit of Congressional housekeeping.The Senate and the House both passed the mental health bill last week. The bill requires mid-sized and large businesses that of...

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