I really want to thank the chairman for conducting this hearing.

Telemedicine has the potential to revolutionize the quality, convenience, and cost effectiveness of healthcare in this country in general and for veterans in particular.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you all for your testimony.

Chairman Pai is making a mistake with repealing the Open Internet Order, which will undermine the Internet, as we know it.

Scott Pruitt, Mike Flynn, Betsy DeVos-- there is a pattern here. This administration keeps choosing people who seem like the wrong fit to run their agency, and now we are about to add Jay Clayton to the list. He is different in a lot of…

I think in the current climate how difficult the conversations are, but we've been running on this regulatory hamster wheel for about 10 years now.

Does the statutory framework allow for the FCC to do this, or does this require legislation?

As you know, a very well-publicized recent report identified within the Army as that subset being 24,000 veterans who had a less-than-honorable discharge who had a service-connected disability but were denied services in some way, shape…

I had a back-and-forth about a year ago with Dr. Shulkin about the statutory authorization that I believe clearly allows the VA to provide care to those that have bad paper discharges.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Make no mistake about it, veteran suicide prevention is an all-hands-on-deck imperative.

I think it's peers. I think it's community groups. I think it's not-for-profit organizations that have community credibility that are going to be able to reconnect these service members to VA.

I'm a little concerned that if we allow the rate-limiting factor in terms of the uptake for telehealth to be broadband availability, there are going to be communities that are still unable to access care.

More than two-thirds of veterans who commit suicide on a given day have either never tried, or tried and failed, to receive help from the VA.

According to the VA approximately 20 veterans commit suicide every day.

I want to point out that in addition to more broadband and more high-tech equipment, if there were a legal solution to the problem of being able to project telehealth across state lines, that is probably the single biggest limitation to…

What worries me the most, though, is that I think you've all got the right clinical and human perspective here...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this hearing to shine a light on a life-or-death matter for many Americans, veterans who are struggling with painful and sometimes overwhelming mental health problems related to the unique challenges of…

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I would like to follow up on a question that has been asked in multiple forms regarding who does what between public and private sector.

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