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Tuesday March 18, 2008
Mental Health Parity
It’s been 10 years since Vermont
enacted its landmark mental health parity law, and now some lawmakers and
mental health advocates are trying to strengthen it. The current law requires all health insurers
to offer equal benefits for mental and physical conditions in their
policies. A new bill before the Senate
this week would allow state regulators to be more aggressive in their policing
of insurance companies.
At the same time, both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives are looking at a federal law to create mental health parity. We hear from Ken Libertoff, the Executive Director of the Vermont Association for Mental Health, and Paulette Thabault, Commissioner of Vermont’s Banking, Insurance, Securities, Health Care Administration, about changes in mental health parity.
Also, we bring you the story of Gail Marlene Schwartz...her one woman play "Crazy" uses humor and visual aids to document her own struggles with mental illness.
And, last week we brought you the story of thousands of bats who are dying from a mysterious disease. We received more questions from listeners than we were able to answer, so we invited wildlife biologist Scott Darling back to answer some of our listeners' best questions.
- Audio Slideshow on bats
- Vermont Edition program on bats--March 13
- Vermont Association for Mental Health
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