Mark Begich: “I know we will have more questions for you we will present through the record.”

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

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

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?

That is actually an old model. That is a model that we are trying to get rid of.