Trump team faces key legal decision that could put mental health coverage in peril

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Trump team faces key legal decision that could put mental health coverage in peril

The Trump administration must soon make a decision that will affect millions of Americans' ability to access and afford mental health and addiction care.The administration is facing a May 12 deadline to declare if it will defend Biden-era regulations that aim to enforce mental health parity — the idea that insurers must cover mental illness and addiction treatment comparably to physical treatments for ailments such as cancer or high blood pressure.Although a federal parity law has been on the books since 2008, the regulations in question were issued last September. They represent the latest development in a nearly two-decade push ..