Clearly, the Federal Government has failed here multiple times over, and I would--I'm just curious.
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Kennedy criticizes the government's failure in vaccine distribution and access for underserved communities.
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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.
So one of the things that the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Treatment Act, along with subsequent parity laws, did was to ensure that plans provide information on how they are making mental and behavioral health parity decisions.
To think that we are losing just as much, if not more, to these illnesses and we are not hearing about it at all.
And, Doctor, you touched on this already a little bit, but just to flesh this out for us a bit more, how does Medicaid expansion specifically help States to respond to the current unprecedented health and economic crisis?





