Politico September 18, 2023
MENTAL HEALTH PARITY PUSH — The Biden administration is prepared to go after health insurers it says don’t follow the law mandating them to treat mental health care in the same way they do physical health care, Ben reports. And the White House is talking tough.
The administration has proposed new rules it says will make insurers comply and threatens hefty fines if they don’t. Insurers are pleading innocent and, backed by some of America’s biggest companies, claiming the Biden plan could make an intractable problem worse.
“We hope insurers will change their behavior going forward without the sticks, but we will continue to fully enforce the parity law,” Neera Tanden, head of President Joe Biden’s domestic policy council, told...
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