Pete Domenici: “It is obvious that there are many who have been here for a short time, such as the Senator, who already understand that…”

“It is obvious that there are many who have been here for a short time, such as the Senator, who already understand that we can't go on as a nation fooling ourselves that schizophrenics are not sick, they don't have a disease; that serious depression, which is now causing suicide in numbers that just go off the map, we can't run around and say, well, for some reason, some purposes, it is an illness or a difficult disease, but for other purposes, well, in terms of whether they should have insurance, we will look the other way and act as if it isn't. We have had Senators who understand manic depression take the floor. Those are just two nice words. One means high; one means low. But you put that in the brain of a person, and it is not very normal. They have to be sick, and they are diagnosable. They are treatable. But here we are, the millennium is here, we are one year into it, and some people would still say: Let's play like it ain't so. Let's just wish it away. And certainly when it comes to health insurance, we just can't.”