Patrick J. Kennedy: “Let's--it's all political will, Senator. That's the only thing that's missing.”

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.

What we're trying to do is make the spirit of parity a practical reality.

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?

We wouldn't expect any less if there were any other illness. And yet we settled for less than 20 percent of Americans getting any of that today in this country.