"The implementation of the Affordable Care Act and continued support of SAMHSA programs that work will go a long way in ensuring that people with serious mental illness have access to the treatments they need."
"The Mental Health Parity Act...ensures that group health plans...do so in a manner that is comparable to coverage for general medical and surgical care."
"So that is, again, something else Congress should look at is do we really want to be just sending that money to the States without the scientific control of where those funds go, right?"
"I am hoping that those kinds of expenditures aren't being made right now with sequester and other cuts looming."
"It is not in the mission of SAMHSA to tell patients not to take their medication, is that correct?"
"And some of those patient advocacy groups may in fact tell their people not to take drugs, is that correct?"
"I think this assisted outpatient treatment should be a tool that psychiatrists and mental institutions are allowed to have."
"irrespective of whose fault the sequester was--and I don't think it was my fault because I voted no"
"I think we have just woefully underfunded our entire mental health system in this country."
"we will read the testimony, and we will make sure we know what is going on."
"I know how difficult it is to have a child with a severe illness."