Patrick J. Kennedy: “If you want to reduce medical costs, try using nonmedical support services.”

So if I were both a liberal or a conservative, parity would be a big issue for me.

Congress and the country have really never appropriated the necessary resources for this crisis.

We can't even get $20 million to even--and by the way, for my Republican friends, enforcing parity means making sure that insurance companies don't give the Heisman to mental health and addiction such that our taxpayers have to pay the…

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…