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This is to vote yes for The Mental Health Parity, Act, S. 558. For people like Alison, a diagnosis of something like Tourette's can affect their health insurance and life insurance. It is listed as a mental health condition even though Dr's know it is in fact a neurological disorder. All you have to do is click this link and enter your information.

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Mental Health Parity is a legislative issue of critical and long-standing importance to me and the TSA. For historical reasons Tourette Syndrome (TS) has been classified as a mental disorder in the reference lists used by health maintenance organizations and health insurers. This is so despite the fact that TS is an inherited, neurobiological disorder characterized by involuntary movements and sounds. Both neurologists and psychiatrists treat the disorder, using the same medications. As a result of the arbitrary classification of TS in the mental health category, many people with severe TS have been denied or greatly limited in receiving treatment or reimbursement for expenses of treatment relating to hospital stays, office visits, and medications.

These barriers to medically necessary treatment inflict enormous harm on American families and our economy and the time is now for Congress to act and end insurance discrimination.
Please make passing S. 558 a top priority and work to bring the bill to the Floor as soon as possible.