Wednesday, June 28, 2006
A celebration will be early, but an end-of-session agreement between the state Senate and Assembly has bring New York an significant step closer to requiring that mental illness get the same insurance defense afforded physical illnesses.
For more than four years, advocates have short of for passage of Timothy's Law, insurance-parity legislation named for 12-year-old Timothy O'Clair, a Schenectady boy who dedicated suicide in 2001 after his parents were forced to give up care so he could qualify for state-paid mental-health treatment. The family's insurance coverage did not cover up his needs.
The boy's father, Tom O'Clair, heralded the agreement arrived at late Friday by the two houses of the state Legislature. The legislation needs health-insurance policies to give at least 30 inpatient and 20 outpatient visits for all mental-health treatment, inferior co-pays that could now be extreme for mental-health treatment. The bill lists specific adult and childhood disorders that will receive unlimited benefits.
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