Mental Health Parity Act of 2008 NEEDS YOU

Hello Friends and Neighbors!

Last month we had a wildly successful call in campaign for the SENATE.
Now we need to repeat the same strategy for the HOUSE.

As a member of the Eating Disorders Coalition (EDC) i am asking for Your voice to be counted. Urge Your Representative to Sign onto a Letter in Support of Parity Regulations Now.

This action is Needed by September 21st.


After years of hard work by mental health organizations such as the EDC, as well as other advocates And citizens, Congress passed the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addictions Act of 2008 on October 3, 2008.

The bill requires the Departments of Labor (DOL), Health and Human Services (HHS) and Treasury to issue regulations Before the effective date of January 1, 2010.
The parity Act was enacted on October 3,2008 and Requires the Issuance of Regulations by OCTOBER3, 2009.
With or without regulations this Act goes into effect for most plans on January 1, 2010. NOT having Regulations issued in a timely manner, with Clearly Outlined Implementation Details, will greatly Limit the intended Positive impact of the Act.

Representative Patrick Kennedy is circulating a Dear Colleague Letter in the House which will be sent to the Secretariesof the 3 Departments Responsible for issuing regulations Insisting they act quickly and consider the comments that were filed in response to the request for information (RFI).

The EDC provided comments to the agencies earlier this year urging the Agencies to interpret the Law in a manner that would Include EATING DISORDERS Coverage.

EVERY Voice Counts!

This leglislation Will impact our Children & Grandchildren's future.
Without Specific writing in the Regulations regarding Eating Disorders (ED) and Eating Disorders Otherwise Diagnosed (EDNOS), the future generations that aquire this Deadly Disease will have no where to turn for help.

ACTION NEEDED:

Call or email YOUR Representatives and Urge them to sign onto Rep. Patrick Kennedy's "Dear Colleague Letter" by September 21st 2009.

To find Your Representative, go to www.house.gov
Put in Your zip code and Your Representative will come up.
Or You can use the phone number for the DC office (starts with 202)


THANK YOU so much for YOUR Time and Attention to This matter and more importantly, THANK YOU for Your Action and Strength in contacting Your House Representative and making Your Voice COUNT on this Important Issue facing Our Nation Today.

ED Is a SILENT killer.

ED IS a Completely Treatable, Curable And PREVENTABLE Disease.

With early information and detection a person suffering this disease CAN expect a Full Recovery. Get the Body Healthy and the Mind WILL Follow.

ED is SILENT because it traps the "patient" inside themselves where they are inundated with Thoughts and Feelings and Physical manifestations that encourage ONLY the Eating Disorder, rendering the person suffering This Disease helpless against an attack on the Body and Mind.

Without widespread Knowlege and Enlightenment on this Disease, it Will continue to feed off the "standard" media coverage (of the last 40 or so years), infecting yet Another Generation with it's SILENT Mission of Death through Malnutrition, Starvation and Death.


Fellow AMERICAN's, Please do NOT allow this Disease to Infect another Generation.

OUR Government is run BY the People and FOR The People of This Great Nation. OUR Future rests in the Decisions and CHOICES We make Today.
These Representative of the House and Senate were Elected BY US because WE felt that THEY conveyed Our Morals and Standards. Which They DO. However, They can ONLY Do This IF WE let Them know how and where WE Stand on any given issue.

With President Obama and Our Representatives in the House and Senate trying to pass a new HealthCare Reform, it is IMPERATIVE that EATING DISORDERS are Specified in black-and-white on the Regulations which WILL BE issued by OCTOBER 3, 2009.

John F. Kennedy said, (before My time,)

"Ask NOT what Your Country can Do for You. Ask, What Can YOU DO for YOUR Country."

In the era of HealthCare Reform it is Time for You (and Me) to Stand Up, Make Our Voice COUNT and DO for OUR Country what NEEDS to be done to ensure a Huge segment of OUR population is Not annihilated by a Treatable, Curable and Preventable Disease called Eating Disorders.

Thank YOU for YOUR Voice in the ear of YOUR Representative of the United States House of Representatives!
Your Action TODAY will ensure the Health of OUR Nation Tommorow!

Blessings of Peace & Health, Enlightenment & Prosperity to YOU!

Lady Limu
Barbara A Thornton
Member of TLC and the EDC