Mark Begich: “There are going to be staggering costs that we cannot even measure today.”

I want to make sure my colleagues hear exactly what you are saying, so a couple years from now, we do not hear complaints that, geez, why did you not do it?

Implementing the Affordable Care Act eclipsed things.

Just assuming the private sector is going to absorb all this is not realistic.

How we approach this mental health system for the VA cannot be in isolation of the mental health system of this country.