Access to proper services is vital to reducing the incidence and severity of behavioral health disorders. The Mental Health Liaison Group (MHLG) advocates that it is therefore imperative that parity is maintained through the private insurance market and Medicaid program to keep behavioral health treatment at the same priority level as other medical care.
Issue statements from the current session of Congress appear below. For statements from past Congresses, view the archive.
- MHLG Urges Senate and House Leadership to Protect Parity Progress, 1.3.17: A Mental Health Liaison Group letter asking Congress to maintain and enforce parity and patient safeguards in the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (2008), the Affordable Care Act, the 21st Century Cures Act, and any future changes to the insurance market and Medicaid program.