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Two new documents to help people with psychiatric disabilities learn more about how the health care bills passed by Congress in 2009 might affect them are available from the UPenn Collaborative on Community Integration.  

The documents, a product of the UPenn Collaborative, developed by the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, may be downloaded for free. "Will Health Reform Help People with Mental Illnesses?"  examines the health reform bills and their impact on opportunities for community integration for people with psychiatric disabilities. 

"If I Have a Psychiatric Disability, Will Health Reform Help Me?" is a complementary factsheet that further describes some changes the law could make in care and treatment for people with psychiatric disabilities.  The bills covered include the House bill, Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962), and the Senate bill, The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (S. 3590).

For more Papers and Reports from the UPenn Collaborative visit:
 http://www.upennrrtc.org/resources/list

NYAPRS, 4/12/10