Quote: Mental Health Parity at Last

Jackie Calmes and Robert Pears in The New York Times:

The Obama administration on Friday will complete a generation-long effort to require insurers to cover care for mental health and addiction just like physical illnesses when it issues long-awaited regulations defining parity in benefits and treatment.

The mental health community has been working for this for decades. And now we will see what difference it will make.

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Bill Gardner

I am a child psychologist and statistician. I hold the Senior Research Chair in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (Ottawa, ON), among other positions. Our research group focuses on the population mental health of children and adolescents and how we can improve it. In July of 2020, I was diagnosed with throat cancer, and I have been writing about that experience.

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Bill Gardner

I am a child psychologist and statistician. I hold the Senior Research Chair in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (Ottawa, ON), among other positions. Our research group focuses on the population mental health of children and adolescents and how we can improve it. In July of 2020, I was diagnosed with throat cancer, and I have been writing about that experience.

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