Date: 07/31/2012
Final
Public Comment
HEALTH CARE EXCHANGE
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12:07 PM -- Public Comment
Representative Gardner thanked the witnesses from the COHBE and opened the floor for public comment.
Ms. Marleen Fish, representing the National Alliance on Mental Illness, supported the inclusion of mental health services in the essential health benefits. She noted that state and federal law require six major categories of mental illness to be treated the same as physical illnesses, and wanted to make sure that these were covered.
Representative Gardner closed public testimony.