Democrats, fearing their health care agenda is trapped in limbo, are pivoting to an issue they think will resonate with millions of Americans: cracking down on insurers who routinely deny mental health and addiction claims
House and Senate committees will hold two hearings this week after holding several last week and hearing testimony from Surgeon General Vivek Murthy., whose younger brother was schizophrenic and died in his early 50s after decades of treatment that ate up much of their father’s savings, said in an interview that putting some new teeth behind existing parity laws is a top priority.
“We’ve made a lot of good-faith efforts to comply,” Grow stressed in an interview. “It’s been a learning process for everyone.” Other groups fighting alongside the insurers against the bills warn that they could enable mental health care providers to charge exorbitant rates for care and force insurers to pick up the tab, potentially raising premiums for everyone.
, who is leading the effort in the House. “How many more people have to die while [insurance companies] invest in stopping these reforms?”
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