Patrick J. Kennedy: “But, Patrick, it is largely to your efforts in Congress that mental health parity is much closer to becoming a reality…”

And until there is that same urgency towards enforcing, and until there is that same money backing up our words that these are really equal illnesses, we are really still in denial as a Nation.

there are hundreds of thousands of my fellows in America who are dying because their medical system does not know they have an underlying addiction because it doesn't show in the EMR that they have been treated for addiction.

So if I were both a liberal or a conservative, parity would be a big issue for me.

We have really just talked the talk, we have never walked the walk on including mental health and addiction treatment.