by November_rain » Tue Dec 05, 2006 5:07 am
I'm still looking into that subject with no success so far.
However it looks like, even when you have health insurance, people in need of treatment are being discriminated in many ways. "We know that alcohol and drug addiction is a disease, yet we still have not integrated it into the health insurance system in a way that is meaningful," says William McColl, director of government relations for the National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors. "People run out of benefits too early," he explains.
A lot of insurers don't want to provide the same coverage for treatment of substance abuse dependence as they do for other diseases like hypertension and diabetes, because they fear it would cost too much.
If you have any thoughts on this subject, please share.
Thanks!