For example, a mental health parity mandate, which requires insurers to cover mental health care at the same levels as physical health care, has a greater impact on the cost of premiums than a collection of mandates for inexpensive procedures utilized by relatively few people.
Will the parity now mandated for mental and physical illness require medical insurance reimbursement for treating these disorders, thus raising insurance costs for the rest of us?
He suggested that the manufacturers would consider a narrower version of the law that mandated parity for serious brain-based illnesses like schizophrenia rather than all mental disorders.
There were similar episodes at other Texas events, and, in 1993, Governor Ann Richards signed a "potty parity" bill, which mandated that, in new sports and entertainment facilities, there be two toilets in women's rest rooms for every one in the men's.
If France were to mandate political parity, she warned, it would mock revolutionary France's liberating credo, one based on the universal character of human rights.
Freshly minted federal mandates for payment parity with other chronic or acute health conditions like cancer or diabetes.
In Michigan, where businesses and big labor unions are united in opposing insurance mandates, a package of five parity bills was introduced in the state House of Representatives in 1998, but never made it out of committee.
Mandate wait-time and price parity standards across all neighborhoods.
Since 1998, 14 states including California have mandated some form of prescription parity, and New York state lawmakers are debating such a bill now.
