the crisis of veteran suicide is not new, but our solutions must be, and that is why I introduced the Veterans' Acute Crisis Care for Emergent Suicide Symptoms Act, or Veterans' ACCESS Act, that will mandate VA cover the costs of emergency mental health care for all veterans, regardless of their eligibility for VA history or level of service connection.
Roe discusses the need for new solutions to veteran suicide and introduces a related act.
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The members here have heard me say this many times, in the Guard in Tennessee we have a program called Guard Your Buddy, which has been shown to reduce suicide by almost 70 percent.
I will not sit here and tell you that I am going to give you a metric and that we will eliminate veteran suicide.
The VA is not meeting all the needs, otherwise the suicide rate would not be 20 a day and staying there.
If you were, you wouldn't behave like this. And nobody would spend their own money like this.
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