Patrick J. Kennedy: “It is prejudice and discrimination to think that if a person has a mental illness, they are not capable of functioning.”

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

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

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

Both APAs, my fellow panelist Patrick Kennedy, and the unified mental health and substance use disorder community championed the parity law in 2008, but it has failed to end discriminatory health insurance practices.