David Roe: “If we're going to spend billions of dollars, we ought to go deep in and convert both systems.”

I believe we have to really get back and reconstitute our mental health infrastructure in this country.

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.

Why don't we take a public health approach?

When suicide occurs in a hospital, a place where the most vulnerable go for help, that loss feels particularly acute.