{"id":564,"date":"2014-10-13T21:06:30","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T21:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/?p=564"},"modified":"2014-10-13T21:06:30","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T21:06:30","slug":"connecticuts-disparity-is-inverted-when-it-comes-to-mental-health-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/?p=564","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut&#8217;s disparity is inverted when it comes to mental health coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to coverage of mental health care for children in Connecticut, there&#8217;s an unusual inversion of the state&#8217;s economic disparity. Parents and health care providers say it&#8217;s easier for low-income children on the state&#8217;s Husky Medicaid plan to get certain care options covered than kids whose parents have private insurance. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/?p=252\" target=\"_blank\">We&#8217;ve talked about this on State of Disparity before<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>Now Connecticut is proposing a new plan to cover mental health care for kids. It involves pooling both public money and money from private insurers. And the plan is getting mixed reviews. Craig LeMoult&#8217;s story on the the plan is online <a href=\"http:\/\/wshu.org\/post\/conn-considers-pooling-public-private-funds-childrens-mental-health\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to coverage of mental health care for children in Connecticut, there&#8217;s an unusual inversion of the state&#8217;s economic disparity. Parents and health care providers say it&#8217;s easier for low-income children on the state&#8217;s Husky Medicaid plan to get certain care options covered than kids whose parents have private insurance. (We&#8217;ve talked about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":565,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions\/565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}