A new paper from The Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy focuses on the application of managed care to mental health care in New Hampshire. In the physical health context, whether managed care has been an overall positive or negative is far from decided, yet many people appear to be adjusting to the demands of managed care. Because of the stigma associated with receiving mental health treatment, consumers of mental health services are in a different position when it comes to asserting and defending their rights to insurance coverage for appropriate treatment. This new study examines how the treatment of mental illness has developed differently from other medicine and how managed care has created separate (but apparently not equal) systems for providing and administering mental health care benefit plans. The following paragraphs summarize the paper\’s conclusions.