Patrick J. Kennedy: “Serious mental illness is a brain disorder, and we must come to terms with this critically important fact...”

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

Moving public health bills should not be a partisan exercise.

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.