They can t assure taxpayers that sufficient protective measures are in place to prevent fraudulent billing. This bill mandates insurance mental health parity. While allowing payments for mental health services and prescriptions may sound like a good idea to some, the real intent of this bill becomes clear when one understands that an amendment to prevent payment to schools for mental health treatment was removed. In 1988 Xerox added mental health benefits. It is estimated that over seven million Californians do not have insurance.
Premium payments are too high.
Consider the implications of AB 1363 and SB 468. SB 468 allows your insurance company to be billed for these services. Proponents of AB 1363 say the reason school-based health clinics are needed is to provide health services to uninsured children. Yet the bill makes no mention of limiting services to only uninsured children, at-risk children, or children of low income families. These bills create an ever increasing spiral that will suck more and more families into relying on government sponsored and supported health care.