On June 13, NAMI released a report, Mental Health Parity at Risk: Deregulating the Individual Market and the Impact on Mental Health Coverage. Written by researchers at Georgetown University, the report reviews the barriers and gaps in mental health and substance use coverage in the individual insurance market prior to the Affordable Care Act (ACA). This report highlights just how bad things were for people with mental illness and substance use disorders and emphasizes the dangers of turning back the clock.

Join Dania Palanker and Kevin Lucia, researchers on the report, to hear about their findings and what they mean in light of recent actions by the Executive Branch. The Administration has taken steps to weaken essential health benefits, which require coverage of mental health and substance use services, and proposed to expand the availability of health plans that discriminate against people with mental health and substance use disorders.