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Landmark Victory: Mental Health Parity Is Now Law, USA (Medical News Today)

President Bush signed mental health parity into law today, taking a great step forward in the decade-plus fight to end insurance discrimination against those seeking treatment for mental health and substance use disorders. This historic legislation requires that health insurance equally cover both mental and physical health.

Insurance parity a milestone in mental health treatment (Houston Chronicle)

More than one-third of all Americans will soon get better insurance coverage of mental health treatments because of a new law that, for the first time, requires equal coverage of mental and physical illnesses.

Mental Health America Hails Approval Of Federal Parity Legislation (Medical News Today)

Mental Health America today hailed as "a great civil rights victory" the approval of mental health parity legislation that will broadly outlaw health insurance discrimination against Americans with mental health and substance-use conditions in employer-sponsored health plans.

Mental-health care coverage gets a boost (Baltimore Sun)

WASHINGTON More than one-third of all Americans will soon get better insurance coverage for mental health care because of a new law that, for the first time, requires equal coverage of mental and physical illnesses. The requirement, included in the economic bailout bill signed by President Bush on Friday, comes after 12 years of advocacy by friends and relatives of people with mental illness and ...

Bailout includes major change for mental health care (San Diego Union-Tribune)

WASHINGTON – More than one-third of all Americans will soon get better insurance coverage of mental health treatment because of a new law that, for the first time, requires equal coverage of mental and physical illnesses.