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Impact - October 1999
Submitted on 10.31.1999
October 1999 PRI Ideas in Action
Policy Update and Monthly Impact Report
California’s Mental Health Parity Insanity
Submitted by Mark Schiller, M.D. on 10.1.1999
This week, California Governor Gray Davis signed legislation which declares that "mental illness is real." As a psychiatrist I’d have to say that the legislators got this part correct. But the new law also mandates parity in coverage for mental illness—bad medicine for all Californians.
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