Mark Begich: “If I can interrupt, like in Alaska, some of our communities might be the villages, the tribes.”

We have a responsibility to protect the most vulnerable among us.

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

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

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