Patrick J. Kennedy: “It has been said that the oversight function of Congress is sometimes even to be preferred to its legislating function.”

What we're trying to do is make the spirit of parity a practical reality.

When we have an emergency, FEMA comes in. They've got housing, job opportunities, support of this and that. We need a strategy that understands that housing is critical to address the homeless epidemic of people with severe mental illness…

We have so underfunded this system for so long, why is it a big surprise that we don't have enough providers in the field?

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…