Patrick J. Kennedy: “That lack of enforcement and transparency has devastating consequences.”

I appreciate this is a bipartisan process, especially on mental health, which affects every family.

This is why it is time to pass the Telemental Health Expansion Act which I introduced, as I mentioned, with Congresswoman Doris Matsui.

there are hundreds of thousands of my fellows in America who are dying because their medical system does not know they have an underlying addiction because it doesn't show in the EMR that they have been treated for addiction.

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