We have not only failed lower income and Black and Brown communities with regards to this virus, we failed them long before anybody uttered the word coronavirus or COVID-19 or knew what social distancing was.
Kennedy discusses systemic failures affecting marginalized communities before and during the pandemic.
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this pandemic has become a diagnostic dye tracing through our system, exposing deep inequities and injustice across our society.
And so, Doctor, if a health plan is not compliant in providing parity coverage for mental and behavioral health services, do you think that should be public knowledge?
This is, in all likelihood, my last committee hearing as well. It has been an extraordinary honor and pleasure and privilege for me to join all of you on the best committee in Congress.
In other parlance, it is countercyclical, right? When you have an economic downturn, Medicaid enrollment increases, right?
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