The Obama administration issued new rules on Friday that promise to improve insurance coverage of mental health care for more than 140 million people insured through their jobs.
The legislation also includes a proposal that would limit insurance coverage of abortion.
Insurance coverage of drugs has grown in the last 20 years, Ms. Levit said.
Further savings might be garnered by reviewing and perhaps changing insurance coverage of various sorts.
The House bill would impose more stringent restrictions than the Senate on insurance coverage of abortion.
More important, a positive diagnosis made a woman eligible for insurance coverage of increased medical monitoring and preventive treatments.
He issued an apology for viciously insulting a woman who had called for insurance coverage of some costs of contraception.
The Mental Health Equitable Treatment Act of 2001, introduced in the Senate, would bar differential insurance coverage of mental and other illnesses.
Reid kept saying that government should provide something that he knows is popular (like mandated insurance coverage of mammograms), and Angle kept saying that it shouldn't.
Elsewhere on Capitol Hill, hundreds of supporters of abortion rights held a rally Wednesday to insist that the legislation allow insurance coverage of abortion.
Some opponents of the amendment have tried to argue that it would effectively end health insurance coverage of abortion in both the private and public sectors.
