Mark Begich: “I really felt we tackled employment issues, as well as VA health care issues.”

Implementing the Affordable Care Act eclipsed things.

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?

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

All we want to do is fix it for Alaska Native people. That is all.