Patrick J. Kennedy: “We ought to be encouraging people in this country to seek mental health. That should not be a disqualifying factor.”

cutting states' critical funding at a time when they are needed most is wrong.

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

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.

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