Opinion article by Rosalynn Carter and Bill Jallah:
Input from people with mental disorders is an essential part of advocacy for health insurance parity in the United States. More than 10 years after Congress passed the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA), a law requiring that insurers treat mental health and substance use disorders on par with other illnesses, many states still do not comply with the law. A 2018 study released by The Kennedy Forum, The Carter Center, and the Well Being Trust, issued a “failing grade” to 32 states for not fulfilling statutes of the law.
