systemic underfunding of healthcare on these reservations was having a devastating consequence to the health of Native Americans across our Nation.

What your bill is calling for is the ability for that to be transparent, to get out, so that State legislatures can start to enact similar laws like that to help provide some accountability.

Our mental healthcare system is broken. Our addiction treatment system is broken.

You would automatically reduce the number of people in jail, in prison in our country overnight.

I can't help but think a huge uptick in the prescribing of benzodiazepines, coupled with huge increases in alcohol consumption, and then, of course, coupled with the new commercialization of marijuana, that we don't have a kind of major…

addiction is addiction is addiction. It could be opioids today, but it could be benzodiazepines tomorrow.

Almost 12 years later, though, there are still insurers that are not compliant with the Federal law, right?

I think if Congress responds by actually saying you are not allowed to sell your health insurance product anywhere else in our market if you don't adhere to our laws.

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?

Twelve years later, time flies. There you go.

Bills of this are already in place. As you know, for oncologists, particularly pediatric oncologists and others, they have these support systems.

benzodiazepine scripts have gone up over 30 percent since COVID hit--30 percent.