Patrick J. Kennedy: “The barriers that insurance companies place before people when trying to access treatment reinforce stigma.”

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

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

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.

When we have an emergency, FEMA comes in. They've got housing, job opportunities, support of this and that. We need a strategy that understands that housing is critical to address the homeless epidemic of people with severe mental illness…