Patrick J. Kennedy: “I am planting my flag in the ground right here and right now, demanding Congress allocate no less than $25 billion in…”

And really, in essence, this is corporate welfare of the first order. We are allowing the richest companies in our country, the healthcare insurance companies, who, by the way, are sitting on a boatload of cash because they have never had…

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

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 made progress in normalizing conversations and reducing stigma about mental illness, it is clear, it is so clear