Patrick J. Kennedy: “It would be a lot easier, like in civil rights, if we define the parameters on the federal level and not leave it to be…”

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

And really, in essence, this is corporate welfare of the first order. We are allowing the richest companies in our country, the healthcare insurance companies, who, by the way, are sitting on a boatload of cash because they have never had…

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

Denial is the big issue here. And we all know growing up in families where there is alcoholism and addiction or mental illness that we don't like to talk about these things.