Patrick J. Kennedy: “We all end up picking up the tab for not enforcing parity.”

Congress and the country have really never appropriated the necessary resources for this crisis.

Our family believes in democracy. We believe in the fact that my uncles, one of whom laid down his life in World War II fighting Hitler over Germany, got shot down.

Both APAs, my fellow panelist Patrick Kennedy, and the unified mental health and substance use disorder community championed the parity law in 2008, but it has failed to end discriminatory health insurance practices.

the largest mental health treatment facility in all of our districts is our county jail.