Despite pervasive discrimination. American families who live the reality of serious brain illness will get up every morning and fight. We will be the little engine that could, and could, and could. Because this is America, where ultimately there is no room for injustice. Science provides proof of the discrimination.
People provide the passion.
Many of us worry that this new law is a step so modest, so tentative, so insecure, that its only effect will be the mobilization of our opponents. Many still harbor false images of mental illness and its treatment. Many, in the business community, harbor concerns about the costs. Many also bristle at the first signs of erosion in the protection against federal regulation that self-insured employers cherish. But we must be smart and dedicated to continued progress, as the civil rights leaders in America were.