Democrats push for mental health insurance equal to that of physical health insurance.
State Senator Dave Hansen (D-Green Bay) says mental illnesses and drug and alcohol addictions are no less significant than physical ailments. One Wisconsin mother agrees. Joanne Grassman’s daughter suffered from anorexia. Grassman thought she had excellent health insurance, that is, until her daughter needed psychiatric care.
“State law in Wisconsin says that insurers can limit the amount of benefit that they will pay for mental illness treatment differently than if my daughter had cancer or if she had been in a car accident or any other kind of what we might call a physical illness.”
Grassman says she has health insurance — and pays her monthly premiums — but it didn’t help when she needed it most.
“Parents should not have to incur a mountain of debt [click to continue…]
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