Mark Begich: “I get that, but the language does not prohibit the State from paying for it or does it?”

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

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.

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