Patrick J. Kennedy: “it is shocking. Literally as shocking as it is that we don't address mental health in our healthcare system is that we…”

We have really just talked the talk, we have never walked the walk on including mental health and addiction treatment.

We wouldn't expect any less if there were any other illness. And yet we settled for less than 20 percent of Americans getting any of that today in this country.

It is prejudice and discrimination to think that if a person has a mental illness, they are not capable of functioning.

there are hundreds of thousands of my fellows in America who are dying because their medical system does not know they have an underlying addiction because it doesn't show in the EMR that they have been treated for addiction.