Patrick J. Kennedy: “Private security contractors are also critical to our capability to carry out U.S. foreign policy under dangerous and…”

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?

there are hundreds of thousands of my fellows in America who are dying because their medical system does not know they have an underlying addiction because it doesn't show in the EMR that they have been treated for addiction.

the promise of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act has not been realized and that many Americans are encountering barriers when seeking professional help.

And really, in essence, this is corporate welfare of the first order. We are allowing the richest companies in our country, the healthcare insurance companies, who, by the way, are sitting on a boatload of cash because they have never had…