Patrick J. Kennedy: “So if I were both a liberal or a conservative, parity would be a big issue for me.”

We ought to be encouraging people in this country to seek mental health. That should not be a disqualifying factor.

And until there is that same urgency towards enforcing, and until there is that same money backing up our words that these are really equal illnesses, we are really still in denial as a Nation.

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

I want to thank the Biden Administration. They’ve put teeth into the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act.