Patrick J. Kennedy: “It is absolutely the wrong policy for our country to be privatizing the commons.”

We keep these illnesses secret. And these illnesses being secret are the reason why they are exacerbated.

Denial is the big issue here. And we all know growing up in families where there is alcoholism and addiction or mental illness that we don't like to talk about these things.

We have so underfunded this system for so long, why is it a big surprise that we don't have enough providers in the field?

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.