Patrick J. Kennedy: “Well, as you go, Mr. Chairman, let me point out that 72 percent of all veterans will never go to the VA in their…”

We wouldn't expect any less if there were any other illness. And yet we settled for less than 20 percent of Americans getting any of that today in this country.

This is why it is time to pass the Telemental Health Expansion Act which I introduced, as I mentioned, with Congresswoman Doris Matsui.

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.

I appreciate this is a bipartisan process, especially on mental health, which affects every family.