After a New Hampshire House committee voted to kick the can down the road on whether to compel insurance companies to cover wraparound mental health services for children, Gov. Kelly Ayotte was “outraged.”
“I was incredibly flabbergasted and disappointed by the House vote on this,” Ayotte told reporters in her office following the vote on Wednesday. “Insurers like Anthem keep claiming that they’re negotiating in good faith, but they’re clearly stalling because they don’t want to cover mental health coverage for children, and it’s wrong.”
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