Joe Pitts: “Premiums and deductibles are going up, not down, as a result of the Affordable Care Act.”

Parity means that insurers need to treat copayments, treatment limits, prior authorization for mental health, substance use disorder the same way they treat for physical health care.

In 2008, Congress passed a bill requiring most group health plans to provide more generous coverage for treatment of mental illnesses.

One in five trauma deaths may be preventable or, in other words, about 30,000 people might be saved every year.

I thank Mr. Murphy for his leadership and his persistence in getting this historic legislation to the floor. When a person struggles with mental illness, he or she may lose her job, her friends, even her family, which can make the mental…