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Urgent Action Alert

Help Make Mental Health Parity a Reality!
December 7th is Call-Congress Day.

You and other advocates across the country did good work! Broad support for ending health-care discrimination helped pave the way for this year's unanimous Senate passage of S. 558 and approval by three committees of H.R. 1424, the Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Equity Addiction Act of 2007. (See summary in the November 7 Mental Health Policy Reporter.)

But few legislative days remain. Lawmakers need your support to enact meaningful mental health parity legislation this year.

The message is clear. Without delay, Congress must assign priority to mental health parity that will help millions of Americans.

Fuel the momentum.

On Friday, December 7th, use the toll-free Parity Hotline, 1-866-parity4 (1-866-727-4894), to call your Representative and Senators and leave a message urging their active support for the mental health and addiction parity legislation. (The Parity Hotline reaches the U.S. Capitol switchboard, which can connect callers to the offices of their members.)

Your message: “I am calling to ask the Senator/Representative not to let another year go by without passing mental health and addiction parity legislation. Please work with the leadership to pass parity now.”

Please keep the heat on and demand enactment of a strong parity bill this year.