Even as key members of the US Congress continue negotiations with the Bush administration over how to guarantee parity between insurance benefits for mental illness and those for other ailments, opponents of the leading bill in Congress argued on Tuesday that its enactment would be a mistake.
With health costs already rising at double-digit rates, “to add mandates to the current third-party payment system is just going to cause it to collapse,” said Rep. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., at a forum sponsored by the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA). “So anyone who’s arguing for mandates at this point is really arguing for single-payer,” he said, assuming the government would take over the health insurance system if it truly fell apart.
DeMint agreed that it is unfair that patients with mental illness are frequently offered lower benefits than those with other ailments, but he said a better way to address the problem is to move to a “consumer-driven” system, in which patients are given money to spend on healthcare and decide themselves how to allocate it. “That would be better coverage” for mental health, he said.
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