Patrick J. Kennedy: “The largest mental health treatment facility in all of our districts is our county jail.”

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

Our family believes in democracy. We believe in the fact that my uncles, one of whom laid down his life in World War II fighting Hitler over Germany, got shot down.

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

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…