Patrick J. Kennedy: “Our family believes in democracy. We believe in the fact that my uncles, one of whom laid down his life in World War II…”

it is shocking. Literally as shocking as it is that we don't address mental health in our healthcare system is that we don't address mental health in our education system.

When we have an emergency, FEMA comes in. They've got housing, job opportunities, support of this and that. We need a strategy that understands that housing is critical to address the homeless epidemic of people with severe mental illness…

We can't even get $20 million to even--and by the way, for my Republican friends, enforcing parity means making sure that insurance companies don't give the Heisman to mental health and addiction such that our taxpayers have to pay the…

It is not working. That is what you essentially have said.