Sentence examples for parity legislation from inspiring English sources

It's time to pass meaningful parity legislation at both the state and federal levels.

Is there a statesman who can push this worthy parity legislation through to final passage before adjournment?

Domenici never expected such a protracted battle on the parity legislation, and he is tiring of it.

Many insurers and employers maintain that the parity legislation is misguided, that it will end up backfiring and prompting some providers to drop mental-health coverage entirely.

And even where parity legislation is broadest, some critics say, managed care has undercut the goal of equality, leaving some patients worse off than they were before.

"The Murky Politics of Mind-Body" (Week in Review, March 30) addresses the debate over mental health insurance parity legislation passed by the House of Representatives in March.

Theodore Laquercia President Society of Modern Psychoanalysts New York, Oct. 1, 2008 • To the Editor: It is especially fitting that the effectiveness of Freudian psychodynamic therapy should receive belated formal recognition just as legislation requiring parity in health insurance coverage of mental and physical ailments has been enacted.

I commend Senator Pete Domenici's efforts to pass legislation enforcing parity in insurance coverage for physical and mental health, but I was disappointed that his wife apparently prevented the reporter from talking directly to their daughter, Clare, claiming that she was "simply too 'wobbly' right now" (Deborah Sontag, Sept. 15).

A Department of Health spokesman said: "Mental health is a priority for this government which is why we announced last month an additional £120 million to improve care and introduced the first ever waiting time standards, which underpins our legislation on parity of esteem".

Ever since the countries adopted their first nationality legislations in the late 19th century, they sought to achieve parity in their legislative regulations (Nordhaug, 2000).

Calling its legislation the "airline parity act," the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and Larry A. Silverstein, who holds the lease on the World Trade Center, as well as New York City succeeded through heavy lobbying last month to get sharp restrictions on the possible damages they could face from victims' lawsuits.