Mental health and Addiction Parity Bill

Making mental health and addiction parity with other medical illnesses is a must for our society. The problem with the this bill currently passed both houses is not parity. In other words, it doesn't have to be included in insurance policies. Mental Health and addiction, are symptoms of brain changes that have occurred,just as a change in various other organs have changed as the result of a disease. The price paid is untold suffering, creating loss of families, wounded children, divorces and losses to our economy and our society. Providing adequate mental health and addiction health care for our society will bring the ability to use our brains in creative, solution focused ways for us to restore ourselves as a nation.

Judy Saalinger, Ph.D, MFT, CAS
Clinical Director