Mark Begich: “Literally we were in some cases 2 days away from people losing their capacity to have oxygen to live.”

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.

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?

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