Federal - PETITION FOR SUPPORT OF SENATE BILL 543 TO STRENGHTEN LAWS AND END DISCRIMINATION IN INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR THOSE WITH MENTAL ILLNESSES INCLUDING ANXIETY DISORDERS AND DEPRESSION

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Dear Elected Official:

I am writing to you to express my support for Senate Bill 543, which requires insurance companies to provide coverage for children and adults with mental illnesses. I understand that one out of every five Americans is affected by mental illness in some manner and I want to ensure that my family, friends and I are covered if some form of mental illness occurs and treatment is required. This legislation will prohibit unequal limits on annual or lifetime mental health benefits, impatient hospital days, outpatient visits, and out-of-pocket expenses.

Insurance companies continue to reduce or eliminate coverage while simultaneously increasing premiums. Without this legislation insurance companies will provide unequal or no coverage for mental illness.

I am concerned that once this legislation is enacted, insurance companies will engage in their usual practice of excessively inflating insurance premiums to provide this coverage. Please ensure that abuse of this type will not occur; otherwise the trend of unaffordability will continue, forcing individuals and families to go without the treatment they desperately need.

Please support this legislation. This issue is important to me and many of your constituents.

Please acknowledge this message and let me know your position on this matter.

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