Patrick J. Kennedy: “I want to thank the Biden Administration. They’ve put teeth into the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act.”

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…

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…

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.