Patrick J. Kennedy: “These are not Republican or Democratic issues.”

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

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?

I appreciate this is a bipartisan process, especially on mental health, which affects every family.

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