David Roe: “I think you can say that yeah, the easy answer is a lot of things were tried but the answer is yes because it is…”

Suicide is a national tragedy. It is not just the VA; it is a national tragedy for us.

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…

With all the metrics and good intentions and all of that, the suicide rates have not changed, so we need to do something different.

I think we all here share an objective to deal with the crisis of veteran suicide.