Introduced on the Milwaukee Renaissance HomePage, and found in its entirety on Patricia’s mini-website on the MilwRen at Patricia Obletz -> Mental Health Parity Bill, this article explains why mental illnesses should receive parity in health care and health insurance with physical illnesses, and offers some suggestions for why it doesn’t and what we can do about it.
The article includes several facts that many of us may find surprising or eye-opening. Patricia urges us to recognize that mental illnesses can affect all of our families — we all have a stake in seeing the inequality of access to treatment addressed.
The full article can be found on the Milwaukee Renaissance at: