At White House opioid commission meeting, insurance industry gets a scolding
The meeting underlined members' concern that the insurance industry needs to take stronger action to help address the nation’s opioid crisis.
by Lev Facher
Oct 20, 2017
3 minutes
WASHINGTON — Patrick Kennedy, it seemed, had been waiting for a public opportunity to speak directly to the nation’s health insurers.
“The historic treatment of addiction and mental illness has been a separate and unequal process,” the former Rhode Island congressman and a member of the president’s opioid commission told a group of insurance executives on Friday. “All of you, as insurers and payers, have treated mental health and addiction as if it’s something other than the rest of medicine.”
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