Patrick J. Kennedy: “We have really just talked the talk, we have never walked the walk on including mental health and addiction treatment.”

The bottom line is, when I go into the ER, if I am going in with COVID or something else and they don't understand about my underlying psychiatric issues, or in the case of addiction they do not know that I am someone who suffered from the…

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

We have so underfunded this system for so long, why is it a big surprise that we don't have enough providers in the field?

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