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Rally for Recovery! 2008
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Campaigns: National Parity Day Success!
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Representatives Patrick Kennedy (D-RI), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Representative Jim Ramstad (R-MN) all spoke at the press conference. |
Thanks to everyone who got in touch with their members of Congress on May 2nd, when Representatives Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) and Jim Ramstad (R-MN) were joined by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Leaders and over a dozen House colleagues on Capitol Hill rally support for H.R. 1424, the "The Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act.”
They were joined by David Wellstone, the son of the late Senator Paul Wellstone. Senator Wellstone championed the rights of people struggling with addiction and mental health to the same health care as others. "It's time to finish what we started in 1994 with our friend and colleague, the late Senator Paul Wellstone, and end the discrimination against people with addiction," said Congressman Ramstad "This is not just another public policy issue. This is a life-or-death issue for millions of Americans."
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Representative Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) and other members of Congress making calls to their colleagues to urge immediate action on H.R. 1424. |
Over the past few months, Representatives Kennedy and Ramstad have joined with other members of Congress to host fourteen informal field hearings across the country in their Campaign to Ensure Mental Health and Addiction Equity. They presented Speaker Pelosi and House leaders with a report from those hearings, "Ending Insurance Discrimination: Fairness and Equality for Americans with Mental Health and Addictive Disorders.”
Thank you to NCADD-New Jersey for providing these photographs .