September 08, 2016
The Huffington Post: Kennedy op/ed: The promise of mental health parity
By: Congressman Joe Kennedy IIINext Article Previous Article
There are a lot of ways you could describe the mental health bill that passed the House of Representatives in July. A first step. A start. A compromise. It's a decent piece of legislation that tackles the margins, not the meat, of mental health reform. That's okay. A system as expansive, entrenched, underfunded and wholly broken as our mental health system will require more than one bill to fix it. What's not okay is to call this bill historic, pat ourselves on the back and move on. (Today's g… Read More