White House budget director Mick Mulvaney is working with Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), chairman of the hard-line conservative coalition, to strike Obamacare’s lengthy list of essential benefits that health plans now have to cover, according to a senior administration official.
Some Republicans have long argued that insurers should be able to sell skimpier coverage that, for example, wouldn’t cover maternity or mental health services.
Republicans Have Lost the Plot on Their Obamacare Repeal
Another approach is to chip away one provision at a time. Congress could, for example, eliminate mental health care or contraceptive coverage, which is required of health plans under the current law.
‘Friendship Bench’ program proves effective at alleviating mental illness symptoms
Their offices are simple wooden seats, called Friendship Benches, located in the grounds of health clinics around Harare and other major cities in Zimbabwe.
Mental Disorders as Networks
But all psychiatric disorders are hopelessly comorbid with each other. If someone meets criteria for one DSM disorder, there’s a 50% chance they’ll have another one too. 60% of people with major depression also have an anxiety disorder.