Patrick J. Kennedy: “this needs to be a priority. And it will be an enormous protective factor for kids, especially since we are seeing…”

We ought to be encouraging people in this country to seek mental health. That should not be a disqualifying factor.

Moving public health bills should not be a partisan exercise.

It is prejudice and discrimination to think that if a person has a mental illness, they are not capable of functioning.

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.