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    parity


    1. choices…that others who would diminish their value(s)… not to enhance however… discredit its reputation…whose parity lies


    2. It was currently almost at parity with the US dollar


    3. It belongs to the new Computational Monetary System and it avoids the loss of the wealth with burning of billion dollars for maintenance of the parity of the coin and its purchasing power


    4. Chirality is the ‘right-handedness’ or ‘left-handedness’ of the universe, that is, it is the asymmetry associated with parity


    5. particles, such as the electrons, protons and neutrinos, violate parity – they


    6. ‘Mirror objects in the Solar System,’ says that nobody doubts that parity


    7. The reversal of parity occurs because the lowest super universe (or the


    8. In an experiment conducted by William Tiller, this parity reversal


    9. is not only of reversed parity; but also reversed polarity or charge


    10. Purchasing power parity states that the price of a good in one country should equal the price of the same good in another country, exchanged at the current rate—the law of one price

    11. There are two versions of the purchasing power parity theory: the absolute version and the relative version


    12. When at some stage, the plunams of the world could have acquired near parity of mobility, it would have been back to the square one for all of them


    13. It also suggests real efforts to realize the government's long-standing ambition to gain the confidence of, and parity with, the British and French governments


    14. Despite gains in salary equality reported in the 1990s, which brought women somewhat closer to parity with men in the working world, studies show that those gains have slowed in the first five years of the 21st century


    15. that creates parity between tax advantages and the cost of bankruptcy


    16. Even though they were winning through sheer numerical superiority, you can see there that they were far from unbeatable, and in fact lost battles a number of times when we could achieve rough parity in numbers


    17. an equal parity as the joy of other citizens is exalted and


    18. al owed to send 50% of al future candidates until you reach parity then you will be allowed 40%


    19. Bodhisattva wins the Matter, or rather, establishes a parity of Matter and Spirit


    20. But when I later got deeply involved in mental health parity, it was clear that a lot of people I was working with had been doing this for a long time

    21. In the 1993 session, she was trying to organize support for a bill concerning a relatively new concept, which was referred to as “insurance parity”—a very early version of what we now call “mental health parity


    22. While it was a national issue, healthcare is generally delivered at the state level, so each state had to pass its own form of “insurance parity,” overseen by its own state insurance commissioner and attorney general


    23. And that’s why Bill Emmet decided that, while he was there lobbying Gordon, he would introduce himself to me and give me his pitch on “insurance parity


    24. (Or that, twenty years later, I would hire Bill as the executive director of my parity initiative


    25. And then by 2001—when the Clintons expected to be leaving office—there would be full mental health and substance use disorder parity, no separate facilities for their treatment (because, by then, they would have been fully integrated into the rest of the healthcare system), and no prejudice against preexisting conditions or lifetime treatment limits


    26. Just a few weeks after my yelling match on the floor of the House, mental health parity got its first serious airing on the floor of the US Senate


    27. It’s not that the idea of such equality of coverage for mental illness had never come up before in Congress, but this was a political turning point for the idea—and for the phrase “mental health parity” itself


    28. Parity seemed like a pretty basic concept, but it actually wasn’t: there were a lot of possible moving parts, each of which came with its own economic and political price tag


    29. One of the biggest issues was what exactly would be covered by a parity law, and how this parity could be created and enforced


    30. Would it cover only what the government called “serious mental illnesses” (a definition that was more limited in 1996 than it is today, including only schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and the most disabling clinical depression)? Would parity cover what the government called “all mental illnesses”—which, in theory, included any condition listed in the DSM (a list that was different and somewhat more limited in 1996 than it is now)? Would parity include all addictions and substance use disorders (which, in 1996, some leading mental health advocates were still claiming were not actually diseases)? Would parity cover a menu of evidence-based treatments from different caregivers in different settings that worked for different patients—the equivalent of covering surgery, medication, outpatient physical therapy, inpatient rehab, and other treatments for a knee injury—or would it mostly be parity for generic psychopharmacology, a little short-term outpatient therapy, and maybe a few days in a hospital after a suicide attempt?

    31. Would parity cover private insurance plans that already included mental health coverage? Would it mandate that all private insurance plans cover mental health, since some of them did not? Would it cover all federally funded health insurance—Medicare, Medicaid, Veterans Health Administration, federal employee coverage—and all publicly funded insurance at the state level?


    32. Wellstone was a well-known liberal on healthcare issues but had only recently begun speaking about the reason for his interest in mental health parity


    33. Wellstone supported the broadest possible parity, including all mental illnesses and substance use disorders


    34. But Domenici and Wellstone refused to withdraw the amendment, so the motion to table mental health parity was put to a dramatic vote


    35. My father and Senator Kassebaum, along with Chris Dodd, Tom Daschle, Bill Frist, Harry Reid, John McCain, and others, voted to have the parity amendment tabled


    36. The very next day, Domenici and Wellstone reintroduced it as a stand-alone bill, the Mental Health Parity Act of 1996—which was the official beginning of using the phrase “mental health parity” for the movement to end medical discrimination against brain disorders


    37. They proposed this new “parity” be accomplished through changes to the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), which defined the rules of many retirement and healthcare plans and, because it was under the Department of Labor and not the Department of Health and Human Services, would more quickly and broadly be effective


    38. When President Clinton signed the HIPAA bill on August 21, he made it a point to express his “disappointment that the Congress dropped from this legislation the mental health parity provision that received such bipartisan support in the Senate,” adding, “Individuals with mental illness have long suffered from discrimination in health plans that impose severe financial burdens on top of the illnesses they already face


    39. I urge the Congress to act at the earliest opportunity to require parity in health insurance coverage for mental health services


    40. At that point, one of my colleagues in the House—longtime California Democratic Congressman Pete Stark—made a last-minute attempt to beef up the mental health parity protections, introducing a bill closer to what Paul Wellstone had originally wanted

    41. It would have amended the Internal Revenue Code to force all group health plans to have full parity—covering all DSM diagnoses—and, more important, would have restructured the Medicare health benefit for full parity


    42. These controversies, while overblown by the media, did serve to reinforce to some people the notion that mental healthcare wasn’t yet ready for parity


    43. The President also called for congressional hearings on mental health parity for the rest of insured Americans—knowing, of course, that this was going to take much longer to achieve and that it couldn’t be accomplished with just a stroke of his pen


    44. This was information that nobody had and the only way to have a benchmark from which to improve, as well as a way of assessing what mental health parity might actually mean in practice


    45. 5 billion over ten years to make sure Americans had complete mental health parity


    46. Their proposal was especially focused on parity for children’s care and making sure that those disabled by mental illness had the same protections as everyone else with a disability


    47. THE 1996 MENTAL HEALTH PARITY ACT—which had not really created much in the way of parity itself but had inspired many states to create much better laws—was due to expire at the end of September of 2001


    48. Over the past few years, there had been Senate and House attempts to improve and extend it—efforts to broaden its care for children, to extend its parity coverage to include addiction—but none of them had gotten any traction


    49. So on March 15, 2001, Senators Wellstone and Domenici introduced a new version of it, Senate Bill 543, which required full parity for all DSM diagnoses, and we waited in the House for the Senate to hold hearings


    50. In the summer, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee held a hearing on mental health parity and ended up approving another watered-down version of parity, no stronger than the one before














































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    Synonyms for "parity"

    parity conservation of parity mirror symmetry space-reflection symmetry check bit parity bit para kinship similarity relation reciprocity community correlation simile

    "parity" definitions

    (obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered


    (mathematics) a relation between a pair of integers: if both integers are odd or both are even they have the same parity; if one is odd and the other is even they have different parity


    (computer science) a bit that is used in an error detection procedure in which a 0 or 1 is added to each group of bits so that it will have either an odd number of 1's or an even number of 1's; e.g., if the parity is odd then any group of bits that arrives with an even number of 1's must contain an error


    (physics) parity is conserved in a universe in which the laws of physics are the same in a right-handed system of coordinates as in a left-handed system


    functional equality