November 14, 2007
MENTAL HEALTH PARITY
ACT OF 2007
AGPA was included
on a list of 271 organizations supporting the Mental Health Parity
Act of 2007.
September 20, 2007
PAUL WELLSTONE MENTAL
HEALTH AND ADDICTIONS EQUITY ACT
AGPA was included
on a list of 225 organizations supporting the Paul Wellstone Mental
Health and Addictions Equity Act.
September 6, 2007
STATE CHILDREN'S
HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM (SCHIP)
Letter expressing gratitude and
support for mental health provisions in the House and Senate-passed
bills that reauthorize and give needed improvements to the State
Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).
August 30, 2007
S. 1852, THE "STOP
SENIOR SUICIDE ACT"
Letter supporting the legislation
recently introduced, S. 1854, the “Stop Senior Suicide Act.”
July 17, 2007
PRIVACY AND SECURITY
OF INDIVIDUAL HEALTH RECORDS
Letter to Senate Leadership on concern
about the need for privacy and security of individual health records
as the development of a national interoperable health information
technology (HIT) infrastructure moves forward.
June 29, 2007
MANAGER'S AMENDMENT TO
S. 558, THE MENTAL HEALTH PARITY ACT OF 2007
Letter supporting the manager’s
amendment to S. 558, the Mental Health Parity Act of 2007,
legislation with the goal of relieving insurance discrimination
against people in need of mental or substance use disorder services.
June 8, 2007
GARRETT LEE SMITH
MEMORIAL ACT
Support (S. 1514/H.R. 2511) to
reauthorize the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act which works toward
suicide prevention and early intervention among youth.
June 7, 2007
CHILD HEALTH CARE
CRISIS RELIEF ACT
Letter expressing support for the
Child Health Care Crisis Relief Act. This legislation addresses the
national shortage of children’s mental health professionals,
including school-based professionals, by encouraging more
individuals to enter these critical fields.
May 29, 2007
CHILDREN'S MENTAL
HEALTH PARITY ACT (S.1337)
Letter commending the introduction of
“Children’s Mental Health Parity Act” (S. 1337) to require equitable
coverage of mental health services in the State Children’s Health
Insurance Program (SCHIP).
April 23, 2007
H.R. 1663, "THE
MEDICARE MENTAL HEALTH MODERNIZATION ACT OF 2007"
Support H.R. 1663,
“The Medicare Mental Health Modernization Act of 2007”, which will
ensure Medicare beneficiaries have adequate access to effective
mental health treatments.
March 7, 2007
STATE CHILDREN'S
HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM
Urging that the
State Children’s Health Insurance Program provide equitable coverage
of mental health services, which are key components of the full
range of services needed for healthy childhood development.
January 24, 2007
KEEPING FAMILIES
TOGETHER ACT
Supporting the
Keeping Families Together Act which responds to the growing crisis
in children’s mental health by addressing a fragmented service
system. The act provides grants to states to establish interagency
systems of care for children and adolescents with serious mental and
emotional disorders.
December 5, 2006
TERRY CLINE NOMINATION FOR SAMHSA
Supporting the
nomination of Terry L. Cline, Ph.D., of Oklahoma for Administrator
of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
September 11, 2006
PSYCHOLOGICAL KEVLAR ACT
Supporting the
Psychological Kevlar Act which represents an important step in
addressing the unmet mental health and addiction needs of military
service-members returning from the Middle East by increasing and
improving education, prevention, screening and treatment activities.
June 14, 2006
POSITIVE AGING ACT
Supporting
inclusion of vital mental health provisions of the Positive Aging
Act in the bill to reauthorize the Older Americans Act, which would
make mental health screening available and accessible to older
Americans.
June 14, 2006
SENIOR INDEPENDENCE ACT
Urging the
inclusion of the mental health language proposed by Representative
Danny Davis in the Senior Independence Act, the bill to reauthorize
the Older Americans Act, which would make mental health screening
available and accessible to older Americans.
May 9, 2006
SMALL EMPLOYERS HEALTH BENEFITS PROGRAM ACT
Support for the
Small Employers Health Benefits Program (SEHBP) Act, which makes
insurance for small purchasers more affordable by providing for
shared insurance risk through a large nationwide pool.
April 12, 2006
HEALTH INSURANCE MARKETPLACE MODERNIZATION AND
AFFORDABILITY ACT
Expressing
opposition to the Health Insurance Marketplace Modernization and
Affordability Act of 2005, which would preempt state insurance laws
in the small, individual and large group markets.
March 7, 2006
HEALTH INSURANCE MARKETPLACE MODERNIZATION AND
AFFORDABILITY ACT
Expressing
opposition to the Health Insurance Marketplace Modernization and
Affordability Act of 2005, which would preempt state insurance laws
in the small, individual and large group markets.
January 3, 2006
WELLSTONE MENTAL HEALTH EQUITABLE TREATMENT
ACT
AGPA was included
on a list of 344 organizations supporting the Paul Wellstone Mental
Health Equitable Treatment Act.
December 16, 2005
DEFICIT REDUCTION ACT
Urging Congress to
include in the final version of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 a
vital provision to protect Medicaid beneficiaries’ access to
antipsychotic and antidepressant medications.
November 15, 2005
PRIVACY OF HEALTH RECORDS
Alert these
ranking members to ongoing concerns about the need to ensure privacy
of individual health records as the development of a national
interoperable health information technology (HIT) infrastructure
moves forward.
October 14, 2005
MENTAL HEALTH PARITY LEGISLATION
Urging Congress to
use the lessons learned from the aftermath of natural disasters such
as Hurricane Katrina and pass mental health parity legislation which
would end continuing discriminatory health insurance practices that
arbitrarily deny people needed mental health treatment.
September 14, 2005
MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM INCREASED FUNDING
Urging maintenance
of the highest-approved funding increases for mental health programs
as the final appropriation bill was negotiated.
June 1, 2005
POSITIVE AGING ACT
Support for the
“Positive Aging Act of 2004,” which makes health services for older
adults an integral part of primary care services in community
settings and extends them to other settings where seniors reside and
receive services.
May 26, 2005
MEDICARE MENTAL HEALTH COPAYMENT EQUITY ACT
Support for the
Medicare Mental Health Copayment Equity Act, which reduces the
discriminatory 50% coinsurance for outpatient mental health care
over six years to 20%, bringing the coinsurance in line with that
required of beneficiaries for other Part B services.
May 17, 2005
KEEPING FAMILIES TOGETHER ACT
Support for the
Keeping Families Together Act, which establishes a state family
support grant program to end the tragedy of parents needing to
relinquish legal custody of their children to state agencies for the
sole purpose of obtaining mental health services for their children.
April 25,
2005
MEDICARE MENTAL HEALTH MODERNIZATION ACT
Support for the
Medicare Mental Health Modernization Act of 2005, which addresses
the deficiencies in the Medicare mental health benefit which keeps
it from meeting the treatment needs of millions of beneficiaries
suffering from mental and emotional disorders.
March 14, 2005
OPPOSITION TO EXEMPTION OF AHPs FROM STATE
LEGISLATION
Expressing opposition to legislation that would exempt association
health plans (AHPs) from state legislation.
March 3, 2005
MENTAL HEALTH COPAYMENT EQUITY ACT
Support for the
Medicare Mental Health Copayment Equity Act, which reduces the
discriminatory 50% coinsurance for outpatient mental health care
over six years to 20%, bringing the coinsurance into line with that
required of Medicare beneficiaries for other Part B services.
March 3, 2005
CHILD CRISIS RELIEF ACT
Support for the
Child Health Care Crisis Relief Act, which addresses the national
shortage of children’s mental health professionals by encouraging
more individuals to enter this critical field
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