I will tell my colleagues, the insurance companies would love to have mental health parity because they would like to have those premiums coming in. ... if mental health parity is in that bill, it would cost the moms and dads, the middle-class workers in this country an increased insurance cost which would be astronomical, so there is a good reason that that is not in the bill.
Discussing the implications of mental health parity in health insurance legislation.
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