“If you were to compare how we pay for mental illness and addiction to diabetes, you’d basically be saying, ‘We have to wait until you have to have your legs amputated, or you go blind before we treat you.’ That’s how we treat the mentally ill and those who suffer from disorders today,” Kennedy said. “What … Continued
“I don’t think I found anywhere in any speech a greater summation of the challenge than we have in this Country in tackling the issues of mental health than what President Kennedy said 50 years ago last October: The mentally ill need no longer by alien to our affections or beyond the help of our communities. … Continued
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