Patrick J. Kennedy: “I concur with Chairman Leahy when he said that Medicaid is the source of treatment for people with mental illness and…”

We all end up picking up the tab for not enforcing parity.

cutting states' critical funding at a time when they are needed most is wrong.

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

If this were any other issue we would move heaven and Earth to deal with it. In COVID we responded right away, everybody inoculation, everybody out there. The longest impact of COVID is going to be mental health, and yet, we don't treat it.