[Timothy's Team] Letters to the Editor Needed!

[Michael Seereiter]

Editorials
The Timothy's Law Campaign has contacted many newspapers throughout New York
State that have previously supported Timothy's Law to ask them to
editorialize once again in support of mental health parity and urge Governor
Pataki to sign Timothy's Law.  So far, we have seen editorials of this
nature in the Albany Times Union and The Journal News.  Keep an eye out for
similar editorials in the following newspapers:
Syracuse Post-Standard
Buffalo News
Catskill Daily Mail
Glens Falls Post-Star
Kingston Daily Freeman
Long Island's Newsday
Elmira Star-Gazette
Poughkeepsie Journal
 
Letters to the Editor
In addition to these editorials, we encourage anyone and everyone to write a
letter the editor of their own newspaper, urging Governor Pataki to sign
Timothy's Law.  Letters should usually be no more than about 150 words in
length and must include your phone number so that the paper can verify that
you did indeed send the letter.
 
Letters to the editor can read something like this:
"On December 13th, the NYS Assembly passed Timothy's Law - the mental health
parity legislation.  The bill is named in memory of 12 year-old Timothy
O'Clair who took his own life in 2001 after his parents were unable to get
him the mental health services he needed due to discriminatory health
insurance policies.  A 20-year effort to change the law to eliminate these
arbitrary limits on mental health coverage in health insurance, this bill
now awaits one last hurdle before becoming law - Governor Pataki's
signature.  Before he leaves office at the end of the year, Governor Pataki
should sign Timothy's Law to make New York State the 37th state in the
country to pass mental health parity legislation."

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