Patrick J. Kennedy: “We could solve this crisis tomorrow if we intervene on first incidents of schizophrenia.”

If this were any other issue we would move heaven and Earth to deal with it. In COVID we responded right away, everybody inoculation, everybody out there. The longest impact of COVID is going to be mental health, and yet, we don't treat it.

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

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?

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.