Can I just make sure that you have somebody on your staff coordinating with Rhode Island to make sure that you are supporting their work and everybody is pulling smoothly together on parity disclosure and enforcement?
Whitehouse requests coordination for mental health parity efforts in Rhode Island.
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We need more clarity on that, and when we have more clarity on that they’ll be back-and-forth to try to resolve those issues.
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