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OLYMPIA - Advocates for the mentally ill urged a Senate committee Thursday to guarantee that even employees of small companies get insurance coverage for mental disabilities equal to their coverage for medical conditions.
In often compelling testimony, they argued that an employee who suffers from a psychotic condition such as clinical depression or bipolar disorder typically costs the employer - and society as a whole - far more than the small increase in the cost of insurance premiums required to provide mental health parity.See the full content of this document
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Mental Health Insurance Debated
Sean Corry, an insurance broker and a member of the Washington Coalition for Insurance Parity, told the Senate Health and Long- Term Care Committee that sufferers from depression typically experience higher absenteeism, file...
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