Patrick J. Kennedy: “We need to do something extraordinary, and it ain't going to be... just borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.”

Congress and the country have really never appropriated the necessary resources for this crisis.

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…

We have got to address the stigma, and we have got to put the resources behind these efforts.

We can't even get $20 million to even--and by the way, for my Republican friends, enforcing parity means making sure that insurance companies don't give the Heisman to mental health and addiction such that our taxpayers have to pay the…