Patrick J. Kennedy: “The time is now.”

The bottom line is, when I go into the ER, if I am going in with COVID or something else and they don't understand about my underlying psychiatric issues, or in the case of addiction they do not know that I am someone who suffered from the…

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…

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

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