Parity on, dude
If you're a consumer of mental health care services, you've surely been hit with the dreaded cap—the abrupt end of insurance benefits for your treatment. It's of course wildly unfair to treat mental illnesses differently than "physical" illnesses, but I've given up even writing about it.
Opponents of parity have often argued it would cost too much money, but a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine says otherwise, opening the door (just a sliver) for progress.
Mental Health Parity Would Not Raise Treatment Costs, NEJM Study Says
