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This 6 page paper discusses social workers in the mental health field, with particular emphasis on the Wellstone legislation that recently passed the House. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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services in the country" (Social workers support mental health parity bill, 2007). Because they are so closely associated with mental health, social workers are very supportive of the "Senator Paul
Wellstone Medical Health Parity Act of 2007," which will be the focus of much of this paper. Discussion The idea behind the parity act is to provide just that-parity-meaning equality.
For years, more money and care has gone to treating strictly medical conditions than has gone to mental illness and / or substance abuse. There is often a correspondence between
the two, in that people who are mentally ill sometimes also abuse various substances. For a variety of reasons, including the stigma that mental illness carries, these programs are not
usually as well-funded as those that treat more traditional conditions. In 2007, a law named for the late senator Paul Wellstone sought to remedy the disparity. Policy, Law and Number:
In March 2008, the House passed "H.R. 1424, the Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act of 2007 by a 268 to 148 vote" (House passes parity bill, 2008).
Under the provisions of the new bill, those group health plans that "currently offer coverage for drug and alcohol addiction and mental illness would have to provide those benefits in
the same way as benefits provided to all other medical and surgical procedures covered by the plan" (House passes parity bill, 2008). That is, if the copay for a visit
to see a doctor about the flu is $25, the copay for a visit about an emotional problem cannot be $40. This bill was approved by the "House Education and
Labor, Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce Committees last year" (House passes parity bill, 2008). The bill was introduced by Rhode Island Democratic Representative Patrick Kennedy and his Republican
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