Patrick Kennedy: Let’s rethink treatment of mental health disorders
September 11, 2014

“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 we ought to be doing as a nation is treating them the same way as those who suffer from physical ailments.”

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