View: Now Available! How Health Care Reform will Affect Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities.

Date: Febuary 4, 2010
Category: 2. COMMUNITY INTEGRATION PAPERS & REPORTS
Issues: *All CI Related Issues*
File: Will Health Reform Help People with Mental Illnesses.pdf

Download this document created by Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law and the UPenn Collaborative to learn more about the bills passed in Congress in 2009 and how their enactment could affect adults with psychiatric disabilities.

The bills addressed include: The House bill, Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R.
3962) and The Senate bill, The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (S.
3590).

Also see the fact sheet, If I Have a Psychiatric Disability, Will Health Reform Help Me? for a description of some changes the law could make in care and treatment for people with psychiatric disabilities.