Patrick J. Kennedy: “There should be a central clearinghouse for--essentially, a database for issues and complaints that arise.”

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

we are in denial as a Nation about mental health.

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…

Both APAs, my fellow panelist Patrick Kennedy, and the unified mental health and substance use disorder community championed the parity law in 2008, but it has failed to end discriminatory health insurance practices.