Parity Bill Hits Roadblocks

April 7, 2003 Parity Bill Hits Roadblocks Even with support from the White House and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), the Mental Health Equitable Treatment Act of 2003 (S.486) is being hit with some roadblocks. The bill, introduced by U.S. Senators Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) and Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) on February 27, 2003, originally was to cover all mental illnesses listed in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, in order to give full parity in benefit coverage for all mental illnesses. Critics of the parity bill, including Representative . . .