Saundra McDavid

Me either.  But in case you want to, you can view it here.   I couldn’t get past the title without finding something to write about.  The actual text would keep me writing for hours.

In the Senate of the United States October 1 (legislative day, September 17), 2008. Resolved, That the bill from the House of Representatives (H.R. 1424) entitled `An Act to amend section 712 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, section 2705 of the Public Health Service Act, section 9812 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require equity in the provision of mental health and substance-related disorder benefits under group health plans, to prohibit discrimination on the basis of genetic information with respect to health insurance and employment, and for other purposes.’, do pass with the following AMENDMENTS

Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:

DIVISION A–EMERGENCY ECONOMIC STABILIZATION

The most critical, some say devastating, bill of our lifetime evolves from an amendment to a mental health bill.   Kind of ironic isn’t it?  Our world impacting $700 billion bailout is an addendum.   One would think it would rate high enough to warrant its own bill.  Perhaps it is fate that allows for mental health equality at the same time we are bailing out the greed and mismanagement of Wall Street, at the expense of the U.S. Taxpayers.