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House debate over catastrophic mental-health coverage ends with bill sent to Rules committee
Summary
Representative Judy Ann Buffmeier presented substitute HB 35 to establish a catastrophic mental-health coverage floor; sponsors cited actuarial estimates of roughly a 1.5% premium increase. After amendment proposals and partisan debate, the House voted to refer the second substitute to the Rules Committee.
Representative Judy Ann Buffmeier introduced second-substitute House Bill 35 on Feb. 18 as a "catastrophic" mental-health coverage proposal intended to create a minimum parity floor for insurance benefits.
Buffmeier told colleagues the bill is "a nonmandated, cost effective, minimum standard for mental health benefits that will protect families and employers from the catastrophic financial and work productivity losses of mental illness." She and supporters repeatedly cited actuarial…
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