Closing the mental health parity gap
Make Me Smart
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🗓️ 9 September 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
The Joe Biden administration announced a final rule aimed at making sure insurance coverage for mental health and substance abuse disorders is on par with traditional medical benefits. We’ll explain why the Supreme Court’s Chevron decision poses a threat to the rule. Plus, the Supreme Court’s emergency docket is filling up with challenges to Environmental Protection Agency standards. And, we’ll talk about a Paralympic marathoner who opted to help out her stumbling guide, even if it cost her a medal.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “Supreme Court Is Swamped With Emergency Appeals, Led by Challenges to EPA” from The Wall Street Journal
- “Biden administration finalizes rule to strengthen mental health parity law” from Reuters
- “Supreme Court’s Chevron Decision Threatens Decades of Progress in Access to Mental Health Care” from MedCity News
- “New Mental Health Rule Introduces Employer Benefit Parity Test” from Bloomberg Law
- “Paralympic Marathoner Loses Medal After Helping Her Guide Yards From Finish” from The New York Times
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| 0:00.0 | I have the script in front of me. Let's go. |
| 0:02.0 | All right. |
| 0:03.0 | I'm Kimberly Adams welcome back to Make Me Smart where we make today makes sense. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm cobras on Monday September 9th. |
| 0:16.7 | Thanks for tuning in or downloading or whatever it is that you do. |
| 0:20.3 | You're listening. |
| 0:22.1 | That's what we care about. Thank you for that. |
| 0:24.0 | Today we're going to get to some news and then some smiles. Let us start with the news. What do you |
| 0:29.2 | got, Kai? So this is an item that I was first keyed into by a guy by the name of Steve Vladdick, who used to be at the University of Texas, is now a Georgetown University Law Center, has written extensively on the |
| 0:41.0 | the intermashinations of the Supreme Court, |
| 0:43.1 | and he's paid a lot of attention to, and he's written a book about, I think, |
| 0:45.6 | the Supreme Court's emergency docket and how the Supreme Court has increasingly |
| 0:49.2 | in the past several-ish, handful-ish of, been making a lot of decisions on what's called the Shadow |
| 0:56.0 | docket. |
| 0:57.0 | That is to say, not doing a full hearing on the merits, but deciding it without hearings, |
| 1:01.7 | without formal opinions, without logic and rationale, |
| 1:04.0 | and all of that, and just deciding it. |
| 1:06.0 | And there's a piece in the journal today |
| 1:08.0 | about exactly that, about how the Supreme Court, |
| 1:11.0 | I'll read you the headline. |
| 1:12.0 | Supreme Court is swamped with emergency appeals |
| 1:14.3 | led by challenges to the EPA. |
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