Robert Wilkie: “suicide prevention remains VA's top clinical priority, and that it requires a focused, national approach”

That is why I am for choice. That is why I am for giving the veterans freedom to choose, to opt out of a system that may not be working for them.

What choice means is giving those veterans and their family caregivers the opportunity to engage with VA any time of the day.

Those who have been exposed to something at K2, be it Blue Water Navy veterans, be it those who still suffer the impacts of Agent Orange, come and see us. File the claims. Come speak to us. This is not your grandfather's V.A., where the…

I am humbled today not only by the confidence placed in me by the President of the United States and the support of our veterans service organizations.