Dan Benishek: “Nearly 10 million Americans have serious mental illness, and millions go without proper treatment or care because our…”

“Nearly 10 million Americans have serious mental illness, and millions go without proper treatment or care because our Nation's mental health system is broken not only for our veterans, but for our nonveterans as well. My next speaker is Dr. Tim Murphy from Pennsylvania, the author of the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act, H.R. 2646. This will overhaul our Nation's mental healthcare system, adding grants for more psychiatrists, authorizing intervention programs, and fixing current nationwide shortages of crisis mental health beds. I yield to my colleague from Pennsylvania (Mr. Murphy).”