Some plans cover new Pap smear technologies, others do not. While most plans have pharmacy and therapeutic committees, they all come up with different recommendations. We want to address these issues and assure that all people have access to appropriate treatments, tests and services. We want equity in access, availability and affordability and we want to identify ways, other than cost, that can help decision makers in their determinations. Yet, psychoses are the second highest hospital discharge category in Washington State.
Women are also victims of domestic violence.
So, we will also examine the equity issues for women and families on access to mental health services and therapies. We are now engaged in identifying how we can best work with the members of our Affiliates Council and create more partnerships with them on our projects and action agendas. Earlier work with them resulted in designing our contraceptive study. So, we will be looking to current and new Affiliates to identify and create collaborative efforts to address healthcare equity issues. If all politics is local and all health care is local, then chapters are the way to go.