Patrick J. Kennedy: “But the complexity can't be the barrier to information for a patient to be able to get access to that care.”

Our family believes in democracy. We believe in the fact that my uncles, one of whom laid down his life in World War II fighting Hitler over Germany, got shot down.

When we have an emergency, FEMA comes in. They've got housing, job opportunities, support of this and that. We need a strategy that understands that housing is critical to address the homeless epidemic of people with severe mental illness…

What we're trying to do is make the spirit of parity a practical reality.

We all end up picking up the tab for not enforcing parity.