David Roe: “What can we do, what would you expect us to do. When we rewrite this policy, what could we do to help you lower the cost…”

The provision in Section 2, it says, 'The Secretary shall give preference in the provision of financial assistance under this section to eligible entities who have demonstrated the ability to provide assistance and suicide prevention…

I think educating the public about this is extremely important and then being prepared for this, if it does.

I will not sit here and tell you that I am going to give you a metric and that we will eliminate veteran suicide.

I want to thank you for having this. I think we should continue this, because this is a travesty in the United States to have these kinds of mortality rates.